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fire-raising

NOUN
  1. malicious burning to destroy property
    the British term for arson is fire-raising

How To Use fire-raising In A Sentence

  • the British term for arson is fire-raising
  • Many police forces have introduced units to tackle vandalism, fire-raising and violence between security firms.
  • Yet our early fire-raising ancestors hardly qualify as polluters.
  • He uses the suffragettes as ‘effective extra-parliamentary protest’ but fails to mention that not until the militants began a campaign of fire-raising and window-smashing were they taken seriously.
  • Widdrington at Chevy – Chase; but as for fire-raising, there was not so much as a lighted lunt amongst us, save the match which the dragon had to light the burning tow withal, which he was to spit against Saint The Abbot
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