English > burn down: 2 senses > verb 2, changeMeaning | Destroy by fire. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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Model | They burn down the trees |
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Synonyms | burn, fire |
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Entailed by | burn | Burn at the stake |
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Narrower | backfire | Set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest / forest to prairie fire |
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cremate | Reduce to ashes |
scorch | Destroy completely by or as if by fire |
torch | Burn maliciously, as by arson |
Broader | destroy, ruin | Destroy completely |
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Similar to | burn, combust | Undergo combustion |
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burn, incinerate | Cause to undergo combustion |
Spanish | arder, incendiar, quemarse, quemar |
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Catalan | brusar, cremar-se, cremar, incendiar |
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