combust

英语

词源

继承自中古英语 combust (“被燃烧”)，源自古法语 combust，源自拉丁语 combustus，拉丁语 combūrere (“烧掉，烧毁”) 的完成被动分词。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /kəmˈbʌst/

• 音频 (美国)：

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• 韵部：-ʌst

动词

combust (第三人称单数简单现在时 combusts，现在分词 combusting，一般过去时及过去分词 combusted)

1. 燃烧
   • 2014, Adelais Selwyn, Eadric, 第 1 卷:

     Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being.

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2. (不及物，比喻义) 爆发出热情或喧闹
   • 2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:

     The audience combusts.

     观众沸腾了。

下位词

• deflagrate
• detonate

派生词汇

• combustible
• combustion
• combustive
• combustor
• incombustible
• spontaneously combust

 

形容词

combust (比较级 more combust，最高级 most combust)

1. (弃用) 被燃烧的
2. (占星术) 与太阳紧密相连，有时指定在8度30分以内
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , I.iii.1.3:

     Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:

     Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.

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名词

combust

1. (弃用) 经过燃烧的物质