Burn and Pine

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Burn verb - To be on fire especially brightly.

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Pine and burn are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pine" instead a verb "Burn".

Nearby Words: burning, burned, burnt, burnout, burner

Pine verb - Have a desire for something or someone who is not present.

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Burn and pine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Burn" instead a verb "Pine".

Nearby Words: pinery, piny

One episode intended for Season Six was to parody pine beetle PSAs that say to burn firewood where you buy, by having Steve accidentally set fire to a grocery store because that's where he bought his firewood and that's where he had to burn it.

Source: Unfinished Episode
Averted in Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80 Color Computer, where you have three variety of torches (Pine, Lunar, and Solar) that will eventually burn out, requiring replacements.

Source: Infinite Flashlight
In the introduction to his collection of Screen Burn columns, he mentions that he actually had to cut down the number of references to things being as unpleasant as "shitting out a pine cone", not realizing how many times he used the phrase.

Source: Author Catchphrase

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