Whoops! There aren't many live coals left! Go make some kindling would you?
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Kindling
//ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ//
Synonyms for "kindling" (34 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (17)
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Translations
40 translations across 25 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- ashër noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- karthje noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- shkarpë noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Armenian
1 entries- կպչան noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Bulgarian
2 entries- подпалки noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- разпалване noun (act)
Danish
1 entries- optændingsmateriale noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Dutch
1 entries- aanmaakhout noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Faroese
1 entries- kykingartilfar noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Finnish
2 entries- syttöpuu noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- sytytys noun (act)
French
1 entries- petit bois noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
German
3 entries- Anmachholz noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- Anzündholz noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- Kleinholz noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Hungarian
3 entries- alágyújtós noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- aprófa noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- gyújtós noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Icelandic
1 entries- uppkveikja noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Irish
1 entries- brosna noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Italian
2 entries- accelerante noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- esca noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Korean
1 entries- 불쏘시개 noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Latin
2 entries- fōmes noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- succēnsiō noun (act)
Māori
2 entries- kōetoeto noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- toutou noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Navajo
1 entries- chizh noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kveike noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- opptenningsved noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kveike noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- nøringsved noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Polish
2 entries- podpałka noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- rozpałka noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Russian
1 entries- растопка noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Sanskrit
1 entries- इन्धन noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Spanish
1 entries- astillas noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Swedish
2 entries- tändmaterial noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
- tändved noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Tagalog
1 entries- panduop noun (pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
"I'll make meat strips out of Tom if I get my hands on him!" "Now, because of you, I'm hungry! Just tell me that you'll cut him into kindling! "
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Kindling is just as important as tinder.
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If you get to use your phone for that, I get to use it as kindling.
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