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Verb
S:
(v)
burn down
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burn up
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go up
(burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire)
"The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"
S:
(v)
burn
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fire
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burn down
(destroy by fire)
"They burned the house and his diaries"
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S:
(v)
backfire
(set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire)
S:
(v)
cremate
(reduce to ashes)
"Cremate a corpse"
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(v)
torch
(burn maliciously, as by arson)
"The madman torched the barns"
S:
(v)
scorch
(destroy completely by or as if by fire)
"The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land"
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