INCENDIARY


Meaning of INCENDIARY in English

I. adjective

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■ NOUN

bomb

There were high-explosive and incendiary bombs of various types available, but no combination weapon.

We had two incendiary bombs , but they were in the canteen.

device

An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture, but the blaze was brought under control.

But taxes, earlier considered the incendiary device of the race, may no longer be so.

The caller claimed three incendiary devices had been planted at the Vineyards.

Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device .

But the incendiary devices were different from those used in previous arson attacks by the extremist group.

Then a series of cassette-sized incendiary devices were carefully hidden in a number of stores.

Firemen found more than a dozen incendiary devices in the offices near Borden, Hants, used by scientists to study squirrels.

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An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture, but the blaze was brought under control.

In its place is a new rhetoric, an incendiary rhetoric, a rhetoric of vitriolic accusation.

Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device.

The incendiary charges Manolo's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule.

II. noun

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In fact Etruria was hit by incendiaries several times, but thankfully survived without extensive damage.

Many of these squads also carried sledge-hammers, axes, and incendiaries.

Out in front are the scouts and incendiaries.

The incendiaries set the villages on fire and the foragers visit and sack them.

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