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What does set alight mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word set alight? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To cause to begin to burn.
  2. (figuratively) To excite, to arouse passion in
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Cheating reached such depths that a pillar box was set alight in an attempt to destroy completed ballot papers, she said.
It was thought that a candle had fallen over and set alight the paperwork in an office in the garage.
A pillar box was set alight in the Washwood Heath ward, apparently to destroy postal votes.
Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it.
Petrol had been poured through the letterbox, said a spokesman for the fire service, and was then set alight.
A classroom was trashed and walls were daubed with graffiti spray before the wooden library door was set alight.

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