combust
Verb
Verb Forms: combusted, combusting, combusts
- To burn or cause to burn completely.
- cause to burn or combust
- "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
- start to burn or burst into flames
- "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"
- cause to become violent or angry
- "Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan"
- undergo combustion
- To burn; to catch fire.
- To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
Adj
- Burnt.
- In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
Noun
- That which undergoes burning.
Examples
- His high-scoring word seemed to COMBUST on the Scrabble board, leaving his opponent in ashes.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”).
Synonyms
blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, burn, catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, ignite, lose one's temper, take fire, throw a fit, catch on fire, combust, fire, forburn, go up, go up in flames, go up in smoke, light, outburn, spunk, torch
Scrabble Score: 13
combust: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcombust: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
combust: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary