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firebrand

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈfaɪə.bɹænd/Part of speech nounSorted abdefinrrStarts with FEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. someone who deliberately foments trouble

Word origin

From Middle English fyr-brand, furbrond, equivalent to fire + brand. Cognate with German Feuerbrand (“firebrand”).

Used in a sentence

  • The crowd cheered as a firebrand was tossed onto the huge pile of wood to start the traditional homecoming bonfire.
  • […] he filled all their throats with it, so that those poor wretches were by it made to cough like foxes, crying, Ha, Pantagruel, how how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us.
  • He that is inebriated with passion is unfit for any action; like Samson's foxes, he scattereth firebrands abroad, to the hurt of all that are near him.

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