ENKINDLED Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

enkindled

verb

past tense of enkindle

as in burned

to set (something) on fire see if you can enkindle some paper in the fireplace while I look for logs

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Hot spots still burned within a 420-square-kilometer (162-square-mile) scar, thousands remained unable to return home, and nearly 3,000 firefighters were deployed against the Gironde megafire and a second blaze in Provence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Despite getting burned for months, the market may have good reason to remain optimistic.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

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As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.

— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
The faith of these settlers kindled a fervent Protestant piety, found in the Great Revival of the Ohio Valley frontier.

— Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026

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The loss later ignited the feud between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines last June after Gaines posted about the championship that same day.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Getz enjoys getting brotherly advice from Hoyer, who executed his own semi-rebuild in 2021 and worked under Theo Epstein on the 2012 Cubs rebuild that ignited the trend across baseball.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026

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Harbaugh lit one more friendly fire under his team at the end of Thursday’s jog-through practice.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
The Plan Commission report said while, due to the nature of the development, the gas station would be brightly lit, the convenience store building and a heavily landscaped area to the west would block the impact of light for neighbors.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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Herbert Wayne Smith, 65, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the blaze that has destroyed seven structures and scorched more than 15 square miles (39 square km) of forest in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
In other air pollution news Wildfires have scorched thousands of acres in Washington state.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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