Слово "ignite". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Once started, it was a quiet game, with little or no conversation, though all about the players the place was a-roar. Elam Harnish had ignited the spark.

I jerked awake and made an honest effort to remain so, by looking down and concentrating on the heads below: there were sixteen bald ones, fourteen men that could pass for redheads, forty heads varying between brown and black, and — I remembered something Jem had once explained to me when he went through a brief period of psychical research: he said if enough people — a stadium full, maybe — were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord.

Like a box of matches igniting in series, the Hellfire missiles exploded, tearing a gaping hole through the top of the magma dome.

Together let's ignite world opinion,

I jerked awake and made an honest effort to remain so, by looking down and concentrating on the heads below: there were sixteen bald ones, fourteen men that could pass for redheads, forty heads varying between brown and black, and — I remembered something Jem had once explained to me when he went through a brief period of psychical research: he said if enough people — a stadium full, maybe — were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord.

The salesgirls dashed shrieking from behind the counters, and as soon as they came from behind them, the linen curtains on the windows blazed up and the benzene on the floor ignited.