spark
/spɑrk/ v [T]Definition
› to start a fire: Downed power lines sparked fires in several parts of town. fig.Parks’s actions in 1955 sparked the Civil Rights Movement. We try to find stories that will spark our students’ imaginations.
(Definition of spark v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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