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DEFLAGRATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deflagrate mean?
• DEFLAGRATE (verb)
The verb DEFLAGRATE has 2 senses:
1. cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity
2. burn with great heat and intense light
Familiarity information: DEFLAGRATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it deflagrates Past simple: deflagrated
Past participle: deflagrated
-ing form: deflagrating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Context example:
care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated
Hypernyms (to "deflagrate" is one way to...):
burn; combust (cause to burn or combust)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
deflagration (combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Burn with great heat and intense light
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the powder deflagrated
Hypernyms (to "deflagrate" is one way to...):
burn; combust (undergo combustion)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
deflagration (combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat)
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