combust

英 [kəmˈbʌst]

美 [kəmˈbʌst]

v.  开始燃烧; 开始烧

过去分词：combusted　现在分词：combusting　过去式：combusted　第三人称单数：combusts　

BNC.48422 / COCA.32174

牛津词典

verb

• 开始燃烧；开始烧
  to start to burn; to start to burn sth

英英释义

verb

• undergo combustion
  1. Maple wood burns well
  Synonym:burn
• cause to become violent or angry
  1. Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan
• get very angry and fly into a rage
  1. The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
  2. Spam makes me go ballistic
  Synonym:flip one's lidblow upthrow a fithit the roofhit the ceilinghave kittenshave a fitblow one's stackfly off the handleflip one's wiglose one's temperblow a fusego ballistic
• start to burn or burst into flames
  1. Marsh gases ignited suddenly
  2. The oily rags combusted spontaneously
  Synonym:eruptignitecatch firetake fireconflagrate
• cause to burn or combust
  1. The sun burned off the fog
  2. We combust coal and other fossil fuels
  Synonym:burn

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