Usually means: Burning with heat and light.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. combusting: Merriam-Webster
  2. combusting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. combusting: Vocabulary.com
  4. combusting: Wordnik
  5. combusting: Wiktionary
  6. combusting: Dictionary.com
  7. Combusting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. combusting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combusting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combusting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See combust as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (combust)

verb:  To burn; to catch fire.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Burnt.
adjective:  (astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
noun:  (obsolete) That which undergoes burning.
▸ Also see combust


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