combust
Example Sentences
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Two lovers come together in an embrace so passionate that it causes them to spontaneously combust.
From New York Times
The worst stretches killed hundreds of people, led to hourslong power outages and even caused a giant landfill on the outskirts of India’s capital to spontaneously combust.
From Seattle Times
In contrast, liquid-fuel missiles use fuel and oxidizer pumped into a combustion chamber, which combust when mixed and burned.
From Washington Post
The company has a nearby power plant with furnaces for combusting waste or biomass and turning it into electricity or thermal energy.
From BBC
E-fuels are considered carbon neutral because they use captured CO2 emissions to balance out the CO2 released when the fuel is combusted in an engine.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
