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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

set the world ablaze en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of set the world on fire.
    • He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier. 2011, David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, page 16:

Forms

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setting the world ablaze Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
set the world ablaze Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
set the world ablaze Tense=Past lexicographic
sets the world ablaze Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic