combustible
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /kəmˈbʌstɪbəl/
combustible
- Capable of burning.
- Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
- (figurative, dated) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
- 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
- Arnold, however, was a combustible character.
- German: brennbar, verbrennbar
- Portuguese: combustível
- Russian: воспламеня́емый
- Spanish: combustible
combustible (plural combustibles)
- A material that is capable of burning.
- French: combustible
- German: Brennstoff
- Portuguese: combustível
- Russian: то́пливо
- Spanish: combustible
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