burn
verb (used without object)
to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire.
burnable
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a word derived from
burn.
Example Sentences
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It’s a burnable approach for a pop star in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
“Use good judgment and don’t light a fire close to burnable vegetation or overhanging branches,” Starkovich said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
Across burnable lands globally, the annual number of flammable nighttime hours increased by 110 hours over the past four decades — allowing five additional nights when flammability does not cease, the study stated.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
We all kept up great fires throughout our stay, burning all the burnable things we could find, without the smallest consideration for our successors, leaving it to our 15,000 long-haired oxen to supply the deficit.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
