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full-burn en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) A state of full power where thrusters etc. are burning to the maximum.
   • "Lieutenant Hikowa, set the Shiva's course for mark one eight zero. Full burn for twelve seconds." 2001, Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 148:

full-burn en · VERB

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1. (ambitransitive) To burn fully or completely.
   • When Kadmi was full-burned we covered him with soil, the heat of his bones making the very earth hiss and steam. 2008, Janet Lee Carey, Dragon's Keep:
   • The chalk which is laid in the morning in the kiln to burn, is in it, sometimes two, sometimes three days, before it passes through the kiln, and becomes full-burned. 1892, Pehr Kalm, Kalm's account of his visit to England:
   • Cyan full-burned the thrusters to gain speed, turning the shuttle away from the planet toward the distant moons. 2011, Laurann Dohner, Taunting Krell:

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