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burn off
verb
to clear (land) of vegetation by burning
to get rid of (unwanted gas at an oil well, etc) by burning
noun
an act or the process of burning off
Idioms and Phrases
Dissipate by heat, as in The sun will soon burn off the morning fog .
Clear land by burning vegetation, as in They've decided to burn off part of the field to prepare it for another planting . This practice has long been common in many parts of the world, but the precise term dates only from the first half of the 1800s.
Example Sentences
The fire that broke out following the crash will have helped to burn off some of the jet fuel but also could be preventing the counter-pollution effort beginning immediately.
Dr Raffan explained: "It alters the predisposition to weight gain because it's tweaking a system that is involved in regulating how hungry we feel and how much energy we burn off."
The gel can subsequently be heated to burn off the organic fragment.
It was a way to burn off stress during that difficult period and, frankly, to fill the hours I’d otherwise be spending solo at home, on the heels of a breakup.
On Thursday and into the weekend, the deep marine layer isn’t expected to burn off each day until late in the afternoon — if at all — while stretching into the Santa Clarita Valley and L.A.
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