Definition of "combusting" []

• Present participle of combust. (verb)

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• "While in some places like Saudi Arabia, where a high standard of living for its citizens keeps a similar situation from combusting, Tunisia's economy cannot keep this tinder-box from lighting as we are seeing."
• "Starbucks Hazelnut Liquid Nitrocino credited with preventing thousands from spontaneously combusting."
• "As it happens, the Undertaker nearly beat the champ, and Pykey and Studdo came as close to simultaneously spontaneously combusting as any commentators I have heard from outside Latin America."