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set the world aflame en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of set the world on fire.
    • There is no danger that these visionary cranks will set the world aflame, but a compelling world is tucked away within their music, a world that sets them apart, too, from the bland and homogeneous conventions that mark the path to pop stardom. 2005, Kevin Courrier, Randy Newman's American Dreams, page 32:

Forms

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