WordNet
v. set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest" [syn: set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire]
Usage examples of "set afire".
There was light everywhere, coming not from candles set afire, but streaming in through the windows in lovely parallel lines of emerald and blue.
My cigar was set afire by a friction match after the ritual circumcision with a bejewelled cutter.
On each side of the highway wrecked and abandoned car hulks had been set afire.
Barrels of pitch were loaded hastily into the slings and set afire with a torch.
It had been pushed off a little bank, brush thrown over it, and then set afire.
Houses torn down and set afire, men dragged out and beaten senseless only for cause of the office they held .
A small deal table was jammed into the fireplace and had been set afire several rimes but had smoldered out.
Someone had brought a long cane from the fire tipped with lighted tow and the Judas was being set afire.
On that same day at one hour past midday he is to be set afire until the stain of his existence is removed from the paths of human history.
I gathered that much rence paper had been taken from the four islands, before they had been set afire.
Ermanaric's men, when they come, will find nothing but the ashes of this hall, which you set afire to keep from him and be a balefire in honor of your brothers.
The Draka flamethrowers set afire such other defenses as we contrived, and made it impossible for us to fight them on the water, where their real strength lies.