"unburn" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: unburns [present, singular, third-person], unburning [participle, present], unburned [participle, past], unburned [past]
Etymology: From un- + burn. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|burn|id1=reversive}} un- + burn Head templates: {{en-verb}} unburn (third-person singular simple present unburns, present participle unburning, simple past and past participle unburned)
  1. (intransitive) To undergo the process of burning in reverse. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Fire

Inflected forms

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    },
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    },
    {
      "form": "unburned",
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        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unburned",
      "tags": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Fire",
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            "Light sources",
            "Chemical processes",
            "Light",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Jim Al-Khalili, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, page 122:",
          "text": "Similarly, you cannot 'unstir' the sugar from a cup of coffee once it has been dissolved, and you never see a pile of ash in the fireplace 'unburn' to become a log of wood again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bradley Harris Dowden, The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue, page 122:",
          "text": "In your class last year we learned that increase in entropy is why matches burn but never unburn, why cans rust but never unrust, and why engines are never perfectly efficient.",
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        }
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        "To undergo the process of burning in reverse."
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        "(intransitive) To undergo the process of burning in reverse."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  ],
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        "present",
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    },
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      "form": "unburning",
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        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "unburned",
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    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "In your class last year we learned that increase in entropy is why matches burn but never unburn, why cans rust but never unrust, and why engines are never perfectly efficient.",
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        }
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        "To undergo the process of burning in reverse."
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        "(intransitive) To undergo the process of burning in reverse."
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      ]
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