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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"