No. 11,969 in Spanish
incendiando
"Incendiando" means "setting on fire" or "igniting."
In a sentence
El bombero apagaba las llamas mientras el fuego seguía incendiando el bosque.
The firefighter was extinguishing the flames while the fire kept setting the forest ablaze.
This sentence uses 'incendiando' as a continuous verb form (gerund) indicating an ongoing action of causing flames in the forest.
Al contar el relato, estaba incendiando los detalles para hacerlo más dramático.
When recounting the story, he was exaggerating the details to make it more dramatic.
Here, 'incendiando' is used metaphorically to imply intensifying or exaggerating.
El artista estaba incendiando sus pinturas viejas como parte de un ritual simbólico.
The artist was setting his old paintings on fire as part of a symbolic ritual.
In this example, 'incendiando' directly describes the act of setting objects, specifically paintings, on fire.
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