Synonyms for kindling
ˈkɪnd lɪŋkin·dling

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1. kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punknoun

   material for starting a fire

   Synonyms:
   hoodlum, firing, goon, lighting, tinder, hood, mettle, ignition, spunk, strong-armer, heart, toughie, tough, punk rock, inflammation, punk, thug, punk rocker, nerve, touchwood

2. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammationnoun

   the act of setting something on fire

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, firing, light, liberation, tinder, redness, firing off, dismission, touchwood, sack, ignition, discharge, release, excitement, spunk, sacking, excitation, ignition system, lighting, inflammation, rubor, punk, inflaming, fervour, fire

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1. kindlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   enkindling, incitement, accension

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1. List of paraphrases for "kindling":

   fuelling, excitation

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1. Tiffany Davila:

   Due to the lack of precipitation that we have had, it’s basically kindling, So, when you take the drought-stricken fuel coupled with the extreme heat, the wind that we’ve had this year and then — in some places, you know, where a fire may start — the topography, the terrain: all of that can go into how active a fire is.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   As the clock strikes midnight, let us not just mark a new year, but ignite the flames of hope within our hearts, kindling the path to transformative change.

3. Steve Edwards:

   I think it is the Delta variant and there is a lot of kindling with low vaccination rates, so it's spreading very rapidly, almost all of our cases are unvaccinated people that, in my opinion, have put themselves in harm's way during this pandemic.

4. Joe Biden:

   Covid is the match that lit the fire. But Donald Trump has spent the last three years stoking and kindling and undermining the core pillars of our economic strength.

5. Will Reinert:

   After years of vehement denial, Governor Lujan Grisham's now revealed sexual harassment settlement certainly raises questions of why Michelle Lujan Grisham tried to discredit Michelle Lujan Grisham alleged victim, where there is smoke there is usually fire, and Michelle Lujan Grisham just wrote a check for $ 62,500 worth of kindling.