Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to combust
Participle: combusted
Gerund: combusting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | combust |
| you | combust |
| he;she;it | combusts |
| we | combust |
| you | combust |
| they | combust |
Perfect
| I | have combusted |
| you | have combusted |
| he;she;it | has combusted |
| we | have combusted |
| you | have combusted |
| they | have combusted |
Past
| I | combusted |
| you | combusted |
| he;she;it | combusted |
| we | combusted |
| you | combusted |
| they | combusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had combusted |
| you | had combusted |
| he;she;it | had combusted |
| we | had combusted |
| you | had combusted |
| they | had combusted |
Future
| I | will combust |
| you | will combust |
| he;she;it | will combust |
| we | will combust |
| you | will combust |
| they | will combust |
Future Perfect
| I | will have combusted |
| you | will have combusted |
| he;she;it | will have combusted |
| we | will have combusted |
| you | will have combusted |
| they | will have combusted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | combust |
| you | combust |
| he;she;it | combust |
| we | combust |
| you | combust |
| they | combust |
Perfect
| I | have combusted |
| you | have combusted |
| he;she;it | have combusted |
| we | have combusted |
| you | have combusted |
| they | have combusted |
Imperfect
| I | combusted |
| you | combusted |
| he;she;it | combusted |
| we | combusted |
| you | combusted |
| they | combusted |
Pluperfect
| I | had combusted |
| you | had combusted |
| he;she;it | had combusted |
| we | had combusted |
| you | had combusted |
| they | had combusted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would combust |
| you | would combust |
| he;she;it | would combust |
| we | would combust |
| you | would combust |
| they | would combust |
Perfect
| I | would have combusted |
| you | would have combusted |
| he;she;it | would have combusted |
| we | would have combusted |
| you | would have combusted |
| they | would have combusted |
Imperative
| you | combust |
| we | Let's combust |
| you | combust |
Verbs conjugated like 'combust'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'combust'
bombast,
combat,
compost,
ambush,
bumbast,
bust,
campus,
co-host,
coadjust,
coast,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin combustus
3. Middle French combustbor.
4. English combust
5. From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Middle French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up, to burn away”, transitive), whence also English combure.
6. The verb was originally transitive. See: Latin '
comburo'.
Sample Sentences
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But if it be combuſted or burnt, it leaveth very much fixed Salt in its own aſhes. [1662, Oriatrike, or, Physick Refined, page 183:]
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[…] by combusting the steel in drillings in pure oxygen […] [1895, Steel Works Analysis, page 16:]
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[…] and the latter built bonfires and combusted the royal effigy in the uncommunicative confines of their rearward premises. [1898, Comic History of Greece, page 194:]
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[…] and combusted the paper in a closed flask in an O₂ atmosphere (see Fig. 2). [1968, Biological Effects of Transmutation, page 32:]
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Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being. [2014, Adelais Selwyn, Eadric, volume 1:]
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The audience combusts. [2012, Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote, Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, →ISBN:]