And yet, when the right situation arises, like a flame brought to a fuse, they would ignite and show how amazing, extraordinary, and beautiful each one of them is in actuality. The song says loud and clear that every one of us is essentially a firework, which may seem ordinary, ineffective, ugly, or covered in an insignificant wrapping. This highly inspirational song is directed exclusively towards most people with untapped and unrealized potential. Shake up, come alive, incite, arouse, awake, heat, commove, inflame, agitate, raise up, wake up, light up, wake, catch fire, instigate, conflagrate, combust, rouse, fire up, kindle, set off, waken, erupt, hot up, awaken, take fire, stir up, foment, vex, heat up, light, disturb, enkindleįirework” is a wonderful self-empowerment anthem by Katy Perry, in my view. "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor" "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" "Wake old feelings of hatred" Inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up verb Lose one's temper, kindle, flare up, heat, have kittens, inflame, push through, break through, enkindle, wake, recrudesce, hit the roof, catch fire, have a fit, fire up, conflagrate, combust, flare, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, break, extravasate, break out, go ballistic, belch, burn, fly off the handle, irrupt, blow a fuse, hit the ceiling, break open, erupt, blow up, take fire, throw a fit, stir up, burst out, burst, come out, blow one's stack, light "Marsh gases ignited suddenly" "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter" "Light a cigarette"įire up, get down, catch fire, illumine, illuminate, dismount, inflame, wake, get off, alight, stir up, light up, erupt, fall, light, conflagrate, combust, perch, unhorse, take fire, illume, heatĮrupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate verb Princeton's WordNet (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate these synonyms:Ĭause to start burning subject to fire or great heat To burn in the fire, burn with fire burn to the ground, burn to ashes burn through the skin, or the roof burn into the soil, etc. Compare LIGHT.īlaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singeĬool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use as, to kindle strife to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion as, to burn wood in the fire to burn one's hand on a hot stove the sun burns the face.
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