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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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
Harry spends the rest of the film with a half-burned hat and a very red, bald scalp.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2022
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 floor was littered with blackened paper crisps from the pages of his half-burned books.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
