Burn
Burn verb - To be on fire especially brightly.
Refuse
Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The Dark Lord ending has the player refuse to burn and instead become the Dark Lord of the new Age of Dark.
Source: Ambiguous Ending - Contrast Hard To Light Fire (things which dramatically refuse to burn).
Source: Made of Incendium -
While Mashiro and Takagi initially refuse to compete with Nanamine on the same story to let him crash and burn, by the next chapter they're convinced to go through with it.
Source: Manga / Bakuman。
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