{
    "term": "ignite",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "ignite",
            "heSheIt": "ignites"
        },
        "pastSimple": "ignited",
        "pastParticiple": "ignited",
        "ingForm": "igniting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to start to burn; to make something start to burn",
            "sensetop": "ignite something",
            "labels": "(figurative)(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Gas ignites very easily."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tempers ignited when the whole family spent Christmas together."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas.",
                    "contextForm": "ignite something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His words ignited their anger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The burning foam generates such heat that other items in the room can ignite spontaneously."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The gunpowder sometimes fails to ignite."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an explosive that is easily ignited"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["spontaneously", "instantly", "suddenly"],
                "verb + ignite": ["fail to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪt/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignite__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪts/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignites__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignited__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/igniting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪt/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignite__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪts/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignites__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/ignited__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪɡˈnaɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ig/ignite/igniting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘make intensely hot’): from Latin ignire ‘set on fire’, from ignis ‘fire’."
}