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• v  cause to start burning
• v  start to burn or burst into flames

• Severe drought during the summer months caused a conflagration throughout the land of the Texas plains.
• The utterances of the bureaucrat conflagrated the skirmish into a full fledged war.

• kindle
• enkindle
• inflame
• erupt
• ignite
• catch fire
• take fire
• combust

Quotes

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• P Chidambaram in Financial Express
  Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a global contagion, leaving no country, developed or otherwise, unscathed,Chidambaram told the...