ignite
verb (used with object)
to set on fire; kindle.
ignited
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past participleof ignite.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof ignite.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
igniteverb (used with object)to set on fire; kindle.
Example Sentences
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The report said a mattress in a lower flat bedroom ignited, and a lithium battery then caused the fire to spread rapidly.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Or to precede: Had it never taken place, the vast internal migration ignited by the California Gold Rush would have remained the single most interesting event in 19th-century America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The spark was ignited on September 23 when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her lifelong Madrid home on a stretcher after the real estate firm that owned the apartment drastically hiked the rent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
When Mo Mahir, 22, from West Bromwich, was nine years old, he "found a video of a guy making a mug cake in a microwave", which he said ignited his passion for baking.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
After all of the recent rejections, this assessment of my potential ignited a spark that I thought had long since been extinguished.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
