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What does arson mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.
  2. (countable) An instance of such a crime.
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Other criminal cases which showed an increase in 2000 included homicide, juvenile delinquency, torture and arson.
Was the arson a hate crime, they asked, an attempted triple homicide, or a hoax?
Incidents have included joy riding, arson attacks on vehicles and fly tipping.
Police are investigating links between the arson attack on December 27 and another three within a half-mile radius over the last few days.
The owner of garages plagued by arson attacks and used as a drinking den has been ordered to clean them up or pull them down.
Firefighters rescued a mill caretaker after an arson attack left him trapped inside the building.

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