Usually means: Burning or scorching; severe inflammation.
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  1. ambustion: Wordnik
  2. ambustion: Wiktionary
  3. Ambustion, ambustion: Dictionary.com
  4. Ambustion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. ambustion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Ambustion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. ambustion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. ambustion: FreeDictionary.org
  9. ambustion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Ambustion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ambustion)

▸ noun:  (medicine, obsolete) A burn or scald.

Similar:
combust, ustion, brending, caustick, scarefire, bonfire, exsufflation, empyrosis, embrocation, abrasion, more...

Opposite:
extinction, quenching, snuffing, smothering

Types:
complete combustion, rapid combustion, slow combustion, deflagration, detonation, more...

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Similar:
combust, ustion, brending, caustick, scarefire, bonfire, exsufflation, empyrosis, embrocation, abrasion, more...

Opposite:
extinction, quenching, snuffing, smothering

Types:
complete combustion, rapid combustion, slow combustion, deflagration, detonation, more...



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