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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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A pillar box was set alight in the Washwood Heath ward, apparently to destroy postal votes.
Among the dead were seven people trapped in houses set alight when a firecracker ignited a stack of fireworks.
It had been spotted by a member of the public after it was set alight and abandoned shortly before midnight on Wednesday.
Petrol had been poured through the letterbox, said a spokesman for the fire service, and was then set alight.
It was thought that a candle had fallen over and set alight the paperwork in an office in the garage.
Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it.

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