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kindle
verb as in start a fire
Example Sentences
Tanton kindles a small fire of twigs inside a metal pitcher, while expounding for the camera about ecology and overpopulation.
Stoke Mandeville is now the permanent lighting point for all Paralympic torches, in the same way the Olympic Flame is kindled at Olympia in Greece.
As a ploy to infuse his writing with a sense of kindled urgency, Max has begun moonlighting as an escort for older men.
The experience shook her confidence in pharmaceutical research, she says, but it also kindled her interest in science.
The flame was kindled on April 16 at Olympia in southern Greece, where the ancient games were held for more than 1,000 years from about 776 B.C. to A.D.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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