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{
"term": "ignite",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "ignite",
"heSheIt": "ignites"
},
"pastSimple": "ignited",
"pastParticiple": "ignited",
"ingForm": "igniting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to start to burn; to make something start to burn",
"sensetop": "ignite something",
"labels": "(figurative)(figurative)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Gas ignites very easily."
},
{
"text": "Tempers ignited when the whole family spent Christmas together."
},
{
"text": "Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas.",
"contextForm": "ignite something"
},
{
"text": "His words ignited their anger."
},
{
"text": "The burning foam generates such heat that other items in the room can ignite spontaneously."
},
{
"text": "The gunpowder sometimes fails to ignite."
},
{
"text": "an explosive that is easily ignited"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["spontaneously", "instantly", "suddenly"],
"verb + ignite": ["fail to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪt/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignite__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪts/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignites__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignited__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/igniting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪt/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignite__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪts/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignites__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/ignited__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ig/ignite/igniting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘make intensely hot’): from Latin ignire ‘set on fire’, from ignis ‘fire’."
}