"controlled burn" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: controlled burns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} controlled burn (plural controlled burns)
  1. A wildfire or brushfire set intentionally and carefully managed for purposes of fire suppression, agriculture, ecological management, etc. Synonyms: backburn, burnoff, hazard reduction burn, prescribed burn, swailing
    Sense id: en-controlled_burn-en-noun-kMyt7laj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Firefighting Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12 Disambiguation of Firefighting: 77 23

Verb

Forms: controlled burns [present, singular, third-person], controlled burning [participle, present], controlled burned [participle, past], controlled burned [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} controlled burn (third-person singular simple present controlled burns, present participle controlled burning, simple past and past participle controlled burned)
  1. To set and manage such a fire.
    Sense id: en-controlled_burn-en-verb-emp2jYab Categories (other): Fire Disambiguation of Fire: 40 60

Inflected forms

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