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kindling

verb , present participle of kindle

Synonyms and Antonyms of kindling

to set (something) on fire

worried that lightning will kindle the forest in the drought-striken nature preserve

Synonyms of kindling

burning, enkindling, firing, igniting, inflaming (also enflaming), lighting, torching

Words Related to kindling

charring, frizzling, scorching

baking, broiling, cooking

ashing, cremating, incinerating, kilning

brightening, illuminating, illumining, irradiating, lightening, radiating

scalding, scathing, searing

reigniting, rekindling, relighting

banking, stoking

Near Antonyms of kindling

choking, smothering, suffocating

blackening, darkening, dimming, dulling, obscuring

Antonyms of kindling

dousing (also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out)

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