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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
combust .
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Examples
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At length the big red sun sank slowly behind the curtain of sky-blue rock, where lies the not yet "combusted" village of Tajurrah.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Two NATO oil tankers combusted after the vehicles were intercepted by armed men and fired upon.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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Taught at MIT and was a high-level theoretical contractor until just after the soul trap project combusted.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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My old Motley Crue t-shirt mysteriously, spontaneously, combusted.
Corinne McDermott: What Is the Best Age to Visit Disney With Kids? Corinne McDermott 2011
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Imagine if I had been a gay man; I might have spontaneously combusted.
Una LaMarche: Crashing Fashion Week: Part One Una LaMarche 2010
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The US DOE is looking into it as well and researchers expect that the hydrate will have to go through a phase change and melt it into methane and water before it can be efficiently combusted.
Large Reserves of Combustible Ice Discovered in China | Inhabitat 2010
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Taught at MIT and was a high-level theoretical contractor until just after the soul trap project combusted.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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For those whose brains have not instantly combusted at the concept, the rise of the picosecond prompts an obvious question: why on Earth which spins at a rate of 460 meters a second is it necessary to trade so fast?
Traders Slice the Second Even Thinner Michelle Price 2011
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My old Motley Crue t-shirt mysteriously, spontaneously, combusted.
Corinne McDermott: What Is the Best Age to Visit Disney With Kids? Corinne McDermott 2011
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These include impurities in the fuel (mercury, lead) and partially combusted material, like particulate matter (PM) or soot, as well as carbon dioxide.
Bill Chameides: An EPA Potboiler: Clean Air Retreat? Bill Chameides 2011
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