Combust and Fire

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Combust verb - To be on fire especially brightly.

Usage example: anthracite, which is naturally hard, combusts more cleanly than bituminous coal

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Fire and combust are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fire" instead the word "Combust" as a verb or a noun.

Fire verb - Destroy by fire.

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Combust and fire are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combust" instead the word "Fire" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Rather dourly, giving the command BURN as any other character causes them to spontaneously combust, actually being set on fire and burning to death.

Source: Good Bad Bugs
His Trouble causes people to spontaneously combust and is activated by his survivor's guilt, so every time someone congratulates him on stopping the fire, people start to die.

Source: Series / Haven
Happens in Men of War, usually by shooting a high enough caliber shot at the fuel tank carried by flamethrower troopers will cause the container to combust, and setting fire to everybody within several meters of them before finally burning to death themselves.

Source: Flamethrower Backfire

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