| VERB | change | burn down, burn up, go up | burn completely |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | burn down, burn, fire | destroy by fire |
| Meaning | Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | burn up, go up | |
| Narrower | incinerate | Become reduced to ashes |
| Broader | burn, combust | Undergo combustion |
| Spanish | incendiar | |
| Catalan | encendre, incendiar | |
| Meaning | Destroy by fire. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They burn down the trees | |
| Synonyms | burn, fire | |
| Entailed by | burn | Burn at the stake |
| Narrower | backfire | Set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest / forest to prairie fire |
| cremate | Reduce to ashes | |
| scorch | Destroy completely by or as if by fire | |
| torch | Burn maliciously, as by arson | |
| Broader | destroy, ruin | Destroy completely |
| Similar to | burn, combust | Undergo combustion |
| burn, incinerate | Cause to undergo combustion | |
| Spanish | arder, incendiar, quemarse, quemar | |
| Catalan | brusar, cremar-se, cremar, incendiar | |
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