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Burn off   /bərn ɔf/   Listen
Burn off

verb
1.
Use up (energy).  Synonyms: burn, burn up.
2.
Clear land of its vegetation by burning it off.






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"Burn off" Quotes from Famous Books



... display the operation of the anointing oil upon our souls.' The Hebrew captives were flung into the fiery furnace. What did it burn? Only their bonds. They themselves lived and rejoiced in the intense heat. So, if we have any real possession of the divine flame, it will burn off our wrists the bands and chains of our old vices, and we shall stand pure and clean, emancipated by the fire which will consume only our sins, and be for our true selves as our native home, where we walk at liberty and expatiate in the genial warmth. That ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Burn off" :   consume, use up, eat up, deplete, burn, run through, denude, eat, bare, denudate, strip, exhaust, wipe out, burn up



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