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alight

verb as in land

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The man who was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred was detained "after an emblem was reported to have been set alight" during a protest on Friday, police said.

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The killers then poured petrol around the bottom of the stairs and doorway at the property, on Lambourne Road, and set it alight, despite the cries of her two-year-old daughter upstairs.

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The judge added that Krayem's actions consisted of "guarding the victim both before and during the execution and taking him to the cage where he was set alight".

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Videos shared on social media showed some of the crowd smashing windows of homes and cars being set alight.

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It had requested emergency berthing - but by the morning the Singapore-flagged vessel was alight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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