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
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
Belisarius, with difficulty and not without danger and great exertion, made his way over ground covered by ruins and half-burned buildings, and ascended to the stadium.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
The air is just smoke and steam and wisps of half-burned leaves.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
