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kindle
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kindle as in: dry twigs to kindle a fire

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    In survival situations, knowing how to kindle a fire can be a lifesaver.
    kindle = start
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    The light of adventure was kindling again in Ron's eyes, but Hermione answered before Harry could.  (source)
    kindling = igniting (figuratively, beginning to burn)
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    Clearly there had to be something for the sparks to ignite, some kind of tinder or kindling, but what?  (source)
    kindling = material that easily catches on fire
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    She tore the paper up and stuffed it into the kindling box, so Father wouldn't see it.  (source)
    kindling = easily combustible material used to start a fire
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    Nana showed her how to knead dough, how to kindle the tandoor and slap the flattened dough onto its inner walls.†  (source)
    kindle = start (a fire)
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    In the morning he rekindled the fire and they ate and watched the shore.†  (source)
    rekindled = restarted (a fire)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindled means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Big Ma asked as she thrust three sticks of dried pine into the stove to rekindle the dying morning fire.  (source)
    rekindle = restart (a fire)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindle means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Giannini saw Howard rekindling his lost love of horses and thought he should stop dabbling and commit himself fully to Thoroughbred racing.†  (source)
    rekindling = restarting (a fire)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindling means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    A hail of dark arrows leaped up and snapped and rattled on his scales and jewels, and their shafts fell back kindled by his breath burning and hissing into the lake.  (source)
    kindled = ignited (set on fire)
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    Yes, and in that month when Prosperpine comes back, and Ceres' dead heart rekindles, when all the woods are a tender smoky blur, and birds no bigger than a budding leaf dart through the singing trees, and when odorous tar comes spongy in the streets, and boys roll balls of it upon their tongues, and they are lumpy with tops and agated marbles;†  (source)
    rekindles = restarts (a fire)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindles means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beauty of her sister re-kindled the admiration of her former lover.†  (source)
    re-kindled = restarted (a fire)
    "Editor's Notes"
    The prefix "re-" in re-kindled means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.

    This is more commonly spelled, rekindled.
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    They would watch him in the evening as he turned the corner below with eager strides, follow carefully the processional of his movements from the time he flung his provisions upon the kitchen table to the re-kindling of his fire, with which he was always at odds when he entered, and on to which he poured wood, coal and kerosene lavishly.†  (source)
    re-kindling = restarting (a fire)
    "Editor's Notes"
    The prefix "re-" in re-kindling means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.

    This is more commonly spelled, rekindling.
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    He supposed they were the dehydrated bodies Follower spoke of earlier as potential kindling.  (source)
    kindling = easily combustible material used to start a fire
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kindle as in: it may kindle her interest

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    The motivational speech kindled a sense of determination among the listeners.
    kindled = aroused
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    When Franz met McCandless, his long-dormant paternal impulses were kindled anew.  (source)
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    Dad, his fervor kindled, would drone for an hour or more, reciting the same lines over and over, fueled by some internal passion that burned long after the rest of us had been lectured into a cold stupor.  (source)
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    One of my new hires was Michael O'Connor, a recent Yale Law School graduate with a passion for helping people in trouble that had been kindled by his own struggles earlier in life.  (source)
    kindled = aroused
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    By the fire, little boys were slapped crossly by their mothers-as if they knew that the original smile now crossed Jenny's face, and hung there no matter what was done to her, like a bit of color that kindles in the sky after the light has gone.†  (source)
    kindles = arouses or inspires
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    She had to find someone who could kindle her desire.  (source)
    kindle = arouse again
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    A tiny flame, one that had been rekindled-optimism.  (source)
    rekindled = restarted
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindles means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    To my dismay, Hassan kept trying to rekindle things between us.  (source)
    rekindle = restart an interest
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindle means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    "What is it?" asked Harry, excitement rekindling.  (source)
    rekindling = restarting
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in rekindling means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Whatever small hope Jordan had kindled by discovering a valid defense-albeit one that had never been used before a judge-had been steadily eroded in the weeks following the hearing by the discovery that had arrived from the DA's office: stacks of paperwork, photos, and evidence.  (source)
    kindled = aroused
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    The lamp kindles a fire in the dark pane.†  (source)
    kindles = arouses or inspires
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    But if these, As I am sure they do, bear fire enough To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women;  (source)
    kindle = inspire
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    It was as if all her inner joy, which had nearly been extinguished, had suddenly been rekindled by Pedro's warm breath upon her neck, the hot touch of his hands upon her back, his chest...  (source)
    rekindled = re-aroused
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