[
UK
/ɪnsˈɛndjəɹi/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɛndiɛɹi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɛndiɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel)
- a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
ADJECTIVE
- arousing to action or rebellion
-
involving deliberate burning of property
an incendiary fire -
capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily
an incendiary agent
incendiary bombs
How To Use incendiary In A Sentence
- These issues are being played out in Britain because it has become the focus of this incendiary global conflict.
- The enemy rained down explosives and incendiary bombs and then dumped barrels of oil onto the flames.
- Some incendiary issues should simply be avoided. Christianity Today
- An incendiary device exploded in the store, setting fire to furniture.
- an incendiary fire
- In addition, it is believed they possess crude electronic devices capable of triggering incendiary bombs.
- Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Politics and the English Language
- The explosion seems to have been caused by an incendiary device.
- Thåre was a high probability the fire was caused by deliberate human agency and that a flammable liquid could have been poured into the building and an "incendiary device such as igniter cord or something" used to light it. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Five incendiary devices were found in her house.