combust
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combust
- /kəmˈbʌst/
Rhymes with -ʌst
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Latin combustus
Middle French combustbor.
English combust
From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Middle French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up, to burn away”, transitive), whence also English combure.
The verb was originally transitive.
verb combusts · combusting · combusted
- To burn up, to burn away, to consume with fire. But if it be combuſted or burnt, it leaveth very much fixed Salt in its own aſhes.
- To burn, to be consumed by fire; to catch fire. Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being.
- To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness. The audience combusts.
adjective more combust · most combust
- Burnt.
- In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'. Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.
noun
- That which undergoes burning.
