conflagrate

Our ability to turn around the rate of carbon emissions and slow the engine that can conflagrate the world is certain.

Low explosives conflagrate (= burn very fast).

You don't conflagrate, you burn.

Despite being a devoted Christian Matthias allowed the shelling of the churches except in case of high risk to conflagrate the town with it.

threatening to conflagrate the crackling grasses.

By the time Rebecca arrived at the refinery, the automatic fire-suppression systems had dealt with the resultant conflagration-which barely had a chance to conflagrate.

1675 conflagrate, concinnatum, London, 1676; republished in an English translation by F. A., M.A., as The Fall and Funeral of Northampton in 1677.

“It is becoming starker by the day that unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a global contagion, leaving no country, developed or otherwise, unscathed,” he said.

What is happening, O Lord, in my spirit, now that I allow myself to be gripped by the vortex of memories and I conflagrate different times at once, as if I were to manipulate the order of the stars and the sequence of their celestial movements?

But rather like a Tom Stoppard play in modernist dress, that quest widens out to consider personal loyalties against a changing political backdrop that finds room for ethical considerations about both journalism and government alongside bursts of Beethoven and the use of "conflagrate" as a verb.