Burn and Lay

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Burn

Burn verb - To be on fire especially brightly.
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Lay is an antonym for burn.
Nearby Words: burning, burned, burnt, burnout, burner

Lay

Lay verb - To place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea.
Usage example: lay the corpse to rest
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Antonyms for Lay
Burn is an antonym for lay.
Nearby Words: laying, laid
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Common collocations

fire burn fire lay fire
life burn life lay life
attack burn attack lay attack
people burn people lay people
Other words: body, hand, way, dead, head, hands, eyes.

Both words in one sentence

  • Evil Luddite They burn down factories, engage in Fantastic Racism against robots, Cyborgs and Transhumans, call for the execution of people who have had life-saving surgery and lay siege to laboratories.
    Source: Evil Luddite
  • The sword will also burn any evil beings who lay hands on it.
    Source: Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is told from the heads of something like fourteen narrators, and the only half-sane one in the entire book gets sent to an insane asylum for trying to burn his mother's steadily-decaying body in someone else's barn and while inside the asylum, goes crazy.
    Source: "Rashomon"-Style aka: The Rashomon
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