Kindling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Easily ignited material, such as dry sticks of wood, used to start a fire. Also called regionally fat pine, fatwood, lightwood.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
  • v. Present participle of kindle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
  • n. Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl..
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A brood or litter.
  • n. The act of causing to burn; setting on fire.
  • n. Material, usually dry wood cut into small pieces, for starting a fire: as, put some kindling in the stove: most commonly in the plural.
  • n. The bringing forth of young: applied by English fanciers to rabbits.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. material for starting a fire
  • n. the act of setting something on fire
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ignitor    igniter    lighter    burning    combustion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ignescent    inflammatory    conflagrative    fuel    tinder    touchwood    lightwood   
    Verb Stem
    kindle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dwindling    pindling    rekindling    swindling   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    extinguishing    lollipop    Elysium    forebrain    effulgent   
     
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