'ignited' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of lighting something on fire, to describe when something increases or strengthens (such as an emotion or situation), or to refer to a spark or flash that triggers an event. For example: The fireworks ignited the night sky, creating a beautiful display of light and color.
This air is guided and diffused by static blades to allow for easier ignition when it is mixed with fuel and ignited in a combustion chamber.
The fireballs, which are made from a mix of things like coal, old jumpers and fir cones, all soaked in paraffin, are ignited just before midnight and the hair-singeing event lasts around 20 minutes.
Which it was, having been prematurely ignited by an over-eager squaddie.
Overseas buying of UK apartments has ignited considerable political controversy at a time when critics say Britain is building fewer than half the number of homes it needs for an expanding population.
Novelists from Africa have also had their imaginations ignited by Detroit.
It started with a desire to work with Rob Shaw Cameron, our director, on something that ignited both our imaginations.
Pebble, the company that ignited the smartwatch market with its $10.3m £6.7mm) crowdfunding campaign in 2012, has returned to Kickstarter with a new device called Pebble Time.
Thousands of people line the streets of the South American city to watch as a wall of firecrackers, known as a "pagara", is strung together before being ignited to blast away evil spirits.
The Icac revelations have ignited criticism from inside and outside the Liberal party about influence peddling in NSW, after the former state Labor government was embroiled in controversy over its former ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald and the granting of mine licences.
"To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began … Although Run Warren Run may not have sparked a candidacy, it ignited a movement," they wrote.
The explosion was followed by several smaller ones as other cars caught fire and ignited.
