Definition of "burn off" []

To dissipate as the result of heat. (verb)
To cause to dissipate by applying heat. (verb)
To dispose of unusable explosive natural gas from an oil well by burning it as it emerges from the well. (verb)
To fill low value air time with programming not suitable for its original purpose. (verb)

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Use "burn off" in a sentence

"After the evaporation of the steaming vapour of spring has gone forward, and the farmer has operated in the way of ploughing and sowing, on whatever ready-prepared land he may have for the purpose, the first dry "spell" is looked forward to most anxiously to burn off the land which has been chopped during the winter – it is bad policy, however, to depend for the whole crop on this"

Words like "burn off"

bare consume denudate denude

deplete eat eat up exhaust

flare run through strip use up

wipe out