Meaning

1 senses

  1. To set fire to; torch.

Examples

41 sentences

  1. Tom used part of an old wasp's nest as a tinder to get his campfire started.

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  2. Kindling is just as important as tinder.

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  3. Tom used tinder to light the fire.

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  4. Mary used tinder to light the campfire.

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  5. Ziri struck the flint to ignite the tinder.

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Origin

From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Ge

From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

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Forms

tinders, tindering, tindered, tindered
Base formtinder · to tinder
3rd person singulartinders
Present participletindering
Past simpletindered
Past participletindered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytinder
he, she, ittinders

Past simpleLesson

all personstindered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tindered
he, she, ithas tindered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tinder

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tinB1tinatineting
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