Burn
Set fire
Burn and set fire are semantically related in start on fire topic. You can use "Burn" instead a verb phrase "Set fire", if it concerns topics such as start a fire.
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Sanji's Diable Jambe (Devil Leg), which covers his foot in heat, allowing him to set fire to or burn opponents.
Source: Playing with Fire - One episode intended for Season Six was to parody pine beetle PSAs that say to burn firewood where you buy, by having Steve accidentally set fire to a grocery store because that's where he bought his firewood and that's where he had to burn it.
Source: Unfinished Episode -
On one occasion, he tied the villains of the story up in an abandoned house, to which he then set fire, leaving them to burn alive.
Source: Gentleman Thief
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