5.5.4 Burn
Use this domain for verbs that are used of fire: "The fire is ____." In some languages there are verbs for what is happening to the thing that is burning: "The house is ____."
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(1) What words refer to a fire burning?
Example words: burn
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(2) What words describe a fire that is burning well?
Example words: blaze, ablaze, burn fiercely, burn brightly, burn hot
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(3) What words describe a fire that is not burning well?
Example words: die down, smolder
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(4) What words describe a fire that starts to burn again after having died down?
Example words: flare up, flame up
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(5) What words describe the appearance of fire?
Example words: flicker, dance, glow
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(6) What words refer to a fire burning something?
Example words: burn something
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(7) What words refer to something burning partly?
Example words: blacken, scorch, singe
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(8) What words refer to something burning completely?
Example words: burn up, burn down, burn to the ground, consume, incinerate, destroy by fire, reduce to ashes
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(9) What words refer to a fire making something hot?
Example words: to heat something, to warm something
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(10) What words refer to something burning?
Example words: be burning, go up in flames, go up in smoke, be in flames
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(11) What words describe something that has been burned?
Example words: burnt