Arsonist
Arsonist noun - A person who deliberately and unlawfully sets fire to a building or other property.
Usage example: they finally caught the arsonist, but only after he'd set fire to four barns
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Synonyms for Arsonist
Torch and arsonist are semantically related. (North American) in one who sets fires illegally topic. In some cases you can use "Torch" instead a noun "Arsonist". informal substitute
Nearby Word: arson
Torch
Torch noun - A person who deliberately and unlawfully sets fire to a building or other property.
Usage example: in an insurance scam, the slumlord hired a torch to burn the tenement down
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Holmes recognises the gear they're carrying as an arsonist's toolkit and guesses Blackwood has ordered them to torch the place.
Source: Film / Sherlock Holmes -
Cotterman decides to torch his place for the insurance money, letting the arsonist take the blame, but as luck would have it just as he comes to the squad room (to set up his alibi for when the fire is scheduled to start) he finds out that they just caught the arsonist.
Source: Pyro Maniac -
Ron prepares for a broadcast by practicing common examples like "how now brown cow" and "unique New York", before moving on to plain sentences ("The arsonist has oddly shaped feet"; "The Human Torch was denied a bank loan") and finally just yelling.
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