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arson

/ahr-suhn/US // ˈɑr sən //UK // (ˈɑːsən) //

纵火,纵火罪,纵火案,纵火事件

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n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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  • The records also described a silver-haired former police chief who walked with an unusual gait, drove a 15-year-old Toyota Camry, and allegedly concealed himself on arson jobs by pulling a tight hoodie around his head.

  • In many of the arsons, the person setting the fires wore a sweatshirt with the hood tied taut around their face, and they set their fires by using gallon jugs of gasoline and sticks tied with cloth.

  • Deem, 31, died battling an arson fire in a gym on May 18, 2017, authorities say.

  • Twenty people in East County are facing a total of 75 felony and misdemeanor charges, most of them tied to the La Mesa protests beginning May 30, which erupted in violence, looting and arson.

  • The demonstrations have also devolved in arson, looting, and property destruction, as well as violence that has left multiple people dead.

  • Murder, drugs, and arson are mercifully absent from his story but many things are different than before.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Murder, rape, arson, and a host of other atrocities are often the first evidence of a diseased brain.

  • These sanguinary deeds were diversified by various attempts at arson—the latest, with aid of gunpowder, being successful.

  • Palliation may be found for the alleged arson mentioned in the catalogue of complaints that have excited British indignation.

  • Arson, rs′on, n. the crime of wilfully burning houses or other buildings.

  • This was a simple matter when the strikers were guilty of trespass, arson, or sabotage.