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.
half-burned
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a word derived from
burn.
Example Sentences
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This summer, we rescued a panini press from our apartment building’s free table — one of those liminal spaces where abandoned houseplants and half-burned candles go to live out their second lives.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Most of what she discovered were half-burned pages from books that had flown out of burning houses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Auchincloss has a ball-shaped candle that she lights, and she likes how, when half-burned, it looks like “a Jacuzzi of wax.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
The dead trees, still standing, would decompose more slowly, reducing nutrient pulses—at the cost of making some islets look like sand ashtrays filled with giant half-burned match sticks.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 27, 2020
Through it all, he’d kept the half-burned piece of firewood wrapped in a cloth in his coat pocket.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
