KILNING Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

kilning

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present participle of kiln

as in ashing

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Photography arrived, kindling an enthusiasm that Baudelaire, ever the cynic, compared to a lust for pornography.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026

Definition of kindling

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Then in 2021, the Caldor fire swept through, incinerating it all.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Today’s severe fires can change a landscape for centuries by killing most or all of the trees, baking the soil, incinerating the seeds and leaving large open areas that cannot easily recover, Williams said.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 July 2026

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Masses of young people ages 15 to 25 packed the sand around the Newport Pier, lighting off fireworks that sent sparks into crowds.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
When the deal was made last season, Zellers was lighting it up with the Green Bay Gamblers of the USHL.

— Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 5 July 2026

Definition of lighting

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The blaze remained confined to the wrecking yard property, despite briefly jumping a fence and igniting vegetation to the west.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
At the party, Decastro spent over an hour shooting off fireworks in the street, eventually igniting the $400 firework.

— Seamus Bozeman, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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But everyday people expressed their political outrage time and again, throwing rocks at and demolishing the houses of government officials, torching the king’s ships and forts and, eventually, marching to battle.

— Robert Parkinson, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
In 1984, then unknown monologist Whoopi Goldberg premiered her provocative, thought-provoking one-woman show on Broadway, torching the rulebook of traditional solo performance in one of the most electrifying debuts of the era.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 June 2026

Definition of torching

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If hearths had been built in the cave, underlying bones would have shown evidence of charring — but not a single bone out of the 4,500 studied was burned.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
That 18,379-acre fire burned for two weeks, largely charring grass over about a third of the island.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 July 2026

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China last tested an ICBM launched into the Pacific in September 2024, firing a DF-31B nuclear-capable missile from Hainan Island in the South China Sea into the open Pacific near French Polynesia.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
China last conducted a missile test in the Pacific two years ago, then firing an intercontinental ballistic missile with a dummy warhead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026

Definition of firing

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While Starlink's connectivity business is profitable, its average revenue per user is declining, forcing it to subsidize the cash-burning Space and AI divisions.

— Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Spain and Portugal have faced deadly fires before Spain is no stranger to wildfires, with last year’s fire season burning almost 1,520 square miles, according to the European Forest Fire Information System, an area twice as large as London.

— Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of burning

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