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sparked off

sparked off is the simple past and past participle of spark off.

Meaning of spark off

Verb

spark off (third-person singular simple present sparks off, present participle sparking off, simple past and past participle sparked off)

  1. (transitive) To initiate something by providing the necessary conditions.
    • My letter to the newspaper sparked off an investigation into government corruption.

Questions about sparked off

What is sparked off the simple past and past participle of?
Sparked off is the simple past and past participle of spark off.

Words near sparked off in the dictionary

  1. spark tests
  2. spark up
  3. sparkable
  4. sparke
  5. sparked
  6. sparked off
  7. sparked out
  8. sparked up
  9. sparken
  10. sparkened
  11. sparkening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sparked off (page history and authors); spark off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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