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combusting
verb
Present participle of combust
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Wiping his own sides' insipid effort from the memory will be the only thing to stop Brad Scott combusting.
(They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries).
They point out that biodegradable waste in a landfill releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas, while incinerators which can also generate electricity from combusting rubbish emit mainly less-damaging carbon dioxide.But most objections focus on local pollution.
Dr Chris Naunton said: "The charring and possibility that a botched mummification led the body spontaneously combusting shortly after burial was entirely unexpected, something of a revelation".
"HollAND HollAND" they screamed when they could get their breath, and around the room each person who, an hour earlier, had looked cold or cynical or unlikely to be good company was infectiously vibrant and vulnerable and passionate and combusting with the splendour of a crowd that can't believe it's about to win.
Fear of the South, its charred nooses and cattle prods such a short drive away, down Baltimore Pike; fear, also, of the poor black masses — our brothers, but oh so removed — slowly combusting in the inner city.
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Pyatt's arrest highlights again the ruthless survival mentality of the Murdoch clan: it is in damage-limitation mode again, as another of its newspapers finds itself in danger of self-combusting.
She is under no great pressure to go to the country from Ukip, which is currently leaderless, or from a Labour party that is self-combusting.
It's Mercury who provokes gasps when he appears on screen to "duet" with Lambert in a Bohemian Rhapsody so riotous one fears the venue may combust.
Such has been the awful trajectory of Ukraine, where protests that began peacefully in November have combusted in grotesque violence.
The impact causes the warhead to combust before it hits the armour.
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