combustible

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combustible - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, a. [Cf. F. combustible.]
     1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire;
        inflammable.
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              Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
                                                    --South.
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     2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
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              Arnold was a combustible character.   --W. Irving.
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  Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, n.
     A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to
     take fire and burn.
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           All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common
           use go under the name of fuel.           --Ure.
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combustible - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  combustible
      adj 1: capable of igniting and burning [ant: incombustible,
             noncombustible]
      n 1: a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power
           [syn: combustible, combustible material]

combustible - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "combustible":
     accendible, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon,
     charcoal, coal, coke, dope, ethane, ethanol, explosive, fiery,
     fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel,
     fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, hasty,
     heptane, hexane, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, inflammable,
     inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane,
     methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, passionate, peat,
     pentane, peppery, propane, propellant, quick, quick-tempered,
     rocket fuel, short-tempered, spunky, turf, volcanic