"unburn" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "un- + burn",
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      "form": "unburns",
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      "form": "unburning",
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    {
      "form": "unburned",
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      "form": "unburned",
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  "pos": "verb",
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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.",
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          "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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        "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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  "word": "unburn"
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  "etymology_text": "un- + burn",
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    {
      "form": "unburning",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "unburned",
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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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