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▸ noun:  A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
▸ noun:  A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
▸ verb:  (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.

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