Difference between Combust and Burn

What is the difference between Combust and Burn?

Combust as a verb is to burn; to catch fire. while Burn as a verb is to be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.

Combust

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To burn; to catch fire.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Near the sun, but not in cazimi.

Burn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.The act of burning something.Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.A stream.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.To become overheated so as to make unusable.To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.To sunburn.To accidentally touch a moving stone.To cause to be consumed by fire.To overheat so as to make unusable.To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.To betray.To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.To waste (time).To insult or defeat.In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.

Example sentence: Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

We hope you now know whether to use Combust or Burn in your sentence.

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