Associations to the word «Arson»

Wiktionary

ARSON, noun. (uncountable) The crime of setting a fire with intent to cause damage.
ARSON, noun. (countable) An instance of such a crime.
ARSON DOG, noun. A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson.

Dictionary definition

ARSON, noun. Malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne