TAKE FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take fire mean? 

• TAKE FIRE (verb)
  The verb TAKE FIRE has 1 sense:

1. start to burn or burst into flames

  Familiarity information: TAKE FIRE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE FIRE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Start to burn or burst into flames

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

catch fire; combust; conflagrate; erupt; ignite; take fire

Context example:

The oily rags combusted spontaneously

Hypernyms (to "take fire" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

burn; combust (cause to burn or combust)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take fire"):

blow out (erupt in an uncontrolled manner)

catch (start burning)

light up (start to burn with a bright flame)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Only think what grand things were produced there by our all going with him one hot day in August to drive about the grounds, and see his genius take fire.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)