Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To catch fire; burst into flame.
- intransitive verb To undergo combustion; burn.
- intransitive verb To become suddenly angry or agitated.
- intransitive verb To cause to burn; ignite.
- intransitive verb To cause to become angry or violent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inflame with excitement and agitation.
- Burnt.
- Hence In astronomy, so near the sun as to be obscured by it, or not more than 8½° from it.
- To burn up or consume with fire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Burnt; consumed.
- adjective (Astron.), obsolete So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
burn ; tocatch fire . - adjective obsolete
Burnt . - adjective astrology In close
conjunction with thesun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb start to burn or burst into flames
- verb cause to burn or combust
- verb get very angry and fly into a rage
- verb cause to become violent or angry
- verb undergo combustion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The heat necessary to combust is created by the high compression ratio.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » “A 330 mpg car for everyone” 2007
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Now, Eugene, wouldn’t it be much more fun for us to sit back and wait for it to spontaneously combust from the flammable gases?
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If a pile rises to 160 degrees or more it could spontaneously combust, which is why the zoo is acquiring a thermometer to measure internal temperature of its manure piles.
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It is thus generally much BETTER to NOT directly "combust" the hydrogen --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize FUEL CELLS which will then DRIVE ELECTRIC MOTORS.
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It is thus BETTER FOR YET ANOTHER KIND OF REASON AS WELL to NOT directly "combust" it --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize fuel cells that then drive electric motors.
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It is thus BETTER FOR YET ANOTHER KIND OF REASON AS WELL to NOT directly "combust" it --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize fuel cells that then drive electric motors.
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It is thus BETTER FOR YET ANOTHER KIND OF REASON AS WELL to NOT directly "combust" it --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize fuel cells that then drive electric motors.
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It is thus generally much BETTER to NOT directly "combust" the hydrogen --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize FUEL CELLS which will then DRIVE ELECTRIC MOTORS.
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It is thus BETTER FOR YET ANOTHER KIND OF REASON AS WELL to NOT directly "combust" it --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize fuel cells that then drive electric motors.
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It is thus BETTER FOR YET ANOTHER KIND OF REASON AS WELL to NOT directly "combust" it --- but, rather, to use it CLOSED-CYCLE to energize fuel cells that then drive electric motors.
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