conflagrate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cōnflāgrāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin cōnflāgrō (“I am consumed by fire”, “I set aflame”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]conflagrate (third-person singular simple present conflagrates, present participle conflagrating, simple past and past participle conflagrated)
- (intransitive) To catch fire. [17th century to the present]
- (transitive) To set fire to something. [17th century to the present]
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]cōnflagrāte