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Combust   /kəmbˈəst/   Listen
Combust

verb
1.
Cause to burn or combust.  Synonym: burn.  "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
2.
Start to burn or burst into flames.  Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire.  "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
3.
Get very angry and fly into a rage.  Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, 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, lose one's temper, throw a fit.  "Spam makes me go ballistic"
4.
Cause to become violent or angry.
5.
Undergo combustion.  Synonym: burn.



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"Combust" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint. We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude, that rise and set with the sun, until the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen morning or evening? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe


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