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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

burn pavement en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (slang) To drive on pavement at high speed.
    • As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte. 2003, Kathy Reichs, Bare Bones, →ISBN, page 1:
    • We burned the air that night as you burned pavement in faux drag racing, me struggling to keep my jaw from slackening as I discovered that you shared my artistic vision, indeed my whole world view. 2001, Xan Nowakowski, Final Days: Poems and Prose for the Adolescent Apocalypse, page 81:
    • The third car hit its lights and a peculiar-sounding siren and began to burn pavement toward them. 2014, Don Pendleton, Terror Ballot, →ISBN, page 293:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
burnt pavement Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
burnt pavement Tense=Past lexicographic
burning pavement Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
burns pavement Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
burned pavement Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
burned pavement Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

burn rubber