Combustion

Noun

 * 1)  The act or process of burning.
 * 2) A process where two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
 * 3) A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
 * 4)  Violent agitation, tumult.

Adjectives for Combustion
fitful; spontaneous; resultant; dire; disastrous; chemical; destructive.

Verbs for Combustion
accompany with—; destroy by—; excite to—; kindle to—; prevent—; produce—; protect against—; reduce by—; resist—; result in—; save from—; support—; throw into—; —consumes; —devours; —eats; —generates; —heats; —rages.

Synonyms for Combustion
act or process of burning
 * incineration
 * cremation

Hyponyms for Combustion

 * deflagration
 * detonation

Related terms

 * combustible
 * combustive
 * combustor
 * spontaneous combustion

Thesaurus
blaze, blazing, blistering, bonfire, branding, burning, burning ghat, calcination, campfire, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cheerful fire, cineration, concremation, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, cracking, crackling fire, cremation, crematory, cupellation, death fire, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, fen fire, fire, flame, flaming, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, ignis fatuus, ignition, incineration, ingle, lambent flame, marshfire, open fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, prairie fire, pyre, pyrolysis, raging fire, refining, scorching, scorification, sea of flames, searing, self-immolation, sheet of fire, signal beacon, singeing, smelting, smudge fire, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, three-alarm fire, two-alarm fire, vesication, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire

Etymology
From combustion, from comburere "to burn", itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe").

Translations

 * Bulgarian: горене
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forbrænding
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: palaminen, polttaminen, poltto
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Hindi: dahan
 * Macedonian:, горење
 * Polish: spalanie
 * Romanian: combustie, combustii, ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Danish: forbrænding
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Macedonian:, палење
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: изгаряне
 * Danish: forbrænding
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: palaminen, polttaminen


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Dutch: verhitte gemoederen, commotie
 * Greek:


 * Spanish:, ,

Etymology
From combustion, from  combustio, from comburere:, itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe").

Noun

 * 1) combustion, burning, incineration

Derived terms

 * combustible

Related terms

 * comburant