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to combust
01
to burn or explode as a result of a chemical reaction with oxygen
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
combust
3rd person singular
combusts
Present participle
combusting
Past simple
combusted
Past participle
combusted
Examples
The fuel will combust when it reaches a high enough temperature.
02
to make something catch fire and burn
Transitive: to combust sth
Examples
The chemist carefully combusted the substances to observe the resulting reaction.
Lexical Tree
combustible
combustion
combustive
combust
