combust
com·bust
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Origin
From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Middle French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up, to burn away”, transitive), whence also English combure.
Phrases
- spontaneously combust
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