Definitions for arson

arson ar·son

Spelling: [ahr-suh n]
IPA: /ˈɑr sən/

Arson is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in arson (anors).

Definitions for arson

noun

  1. Law. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance.

Origin of arson

1670-80; Anglo-French, Old French Late Latin ārsiōn- (stem of ārsiō) a burning, equivalent to ārs- (Latin ārd(ere) to burn (cf. ardent) + -t(us) past participle suf

Examples for arson

Well, I may tell you that I have a warrant to arrest him on a charge of arson.

It's a good day to remember Rodney Hulin, a physically slight teenager who was serving time for arson in a Texas prison.

At Courbesseaux arson and pillage were also committed on the 5th of September.

arson was arson; a man in prison more or less was a man in prison more or less!

Grave suspicions of arson are entertained, but up to the present no arrest has been made.

In the late 1940s, he writes, there was “one racially motivated bombing or arson” every twenty days.

Zeffirelli's film was awful and creepy and over the top in all the right ways: arson, chases, death, prison, Tom Cruise.

You're not going ashore into this hades of riot and arson, are you?

Klansmen were implicated in the arson of 30 black churches in Mississippi.

But no one went through with the arson threats that were bandied about back then, says Cummins.

Word Value for arson
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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