Burn

Eg: Help! My tent has caught fire! Eg: The candle flickered in the wind. Eg: The cigarette smouldered in the ashtray. Eg: The match flared in the darkness. Eg: The fire flamed up when he put oil on it. Eg: All the infected clothes were incinerated. Eg: When the firemen arrived, the whole house was blazing. Eg: The fire raged through the forest for days. Eg: The fireplace smokes too much. Eg: Cattle are usually brandred on big farms. Eg: by nightfall, the whole city was burning. Eg: singe: burn the surface of something slightly. The flames had singed his hair Eg: Roast the peppers until the skin begins to char. Eg: Before a dead person is cremated, an authorization must be obtained. 
 * **catch fire**: start burning.
 * **flicker:** burn unsteadily.
 * **smoulder**: burn slowly without flames.
 * **flare:** burn brightly but unsteadily or briefly.
 * **flame**: burn in flames.
 * **Incinerate**: burn something completely to ashes.
 * **blaze:** burn brightly and fiercely.
 * **rage**: burn very strongly.
 * **smoke**: give out smoke.
 * **brand**: burn a mark on something.
 * **be on fire**: be alight, be ablaze, blaze, go up (in smoke), be in flames, be aflame; smoulder, glow.
 * **scorch**: To damage the surface of something by burning it so that a dark mark is left on it.
 * **sear**: burn something with a sudden powerful heat. The heat seared his skin.
 * **char**: burn something so that its outside becomes black.
 * **cremate**: burn the body of a dead person at a funeral ceremony.