"conflagrate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: conflagrates [present, singular, third-person], conflagrating [participle, present], conflagrated [participle, past], conflagrated [past]
Etymology: From cōnflāgrāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin cōnflāgrō (“I am consumed by fire”, “I set aflame”). Etymology templates: {{m|la||cōnflāgrāt-}} cōnflāgrāt-, {{uder|en|la|cōnflāgrō||I am consumed by fire”, “I set aflame}} Latin cōnflāgrō (“I am consumed by fire”, “I set aflame”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} conflagrate (third-person singular simple present conflagrates, present participle conflagrating, simple past and past participle conflagrated)
  1. (intransitive) To catch fire. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-conflagrate-en-verb-0brPVx2I
  2. (transitive) To set fire to something. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-conflagrate-en-verb-4P8DbeO3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 25 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: conflagration

Inflected forms

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