fire-raising

1. 1.

   malicious burning to destroy property

   “the British term for arson is fire-raising”

   Synonymsarsonincendiarism

   Broaderburning

Questions about fire-raising

What does fire-raising mean?

fire-raising means "malicious burning to destroy property".

How many syllables are in fire-raising?

fire-raising has 4 syllables: fi-re--rai-sing. The stress falls on "re-".

What is another word for fire-raising?

Close synonyms include arson, incendiarism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire-raising a common word?

fire-raising is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.