| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated".[Wordnet]
2. Burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated".[Wordnet] 3. To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.[Websters] 4. To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.[Websters] 5. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: deflagrating, deflagrated, deflagrates, deflagrator, deflagrators, deflagratingly and deflagratedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEFLAGRATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFLAGRATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To set fire to; to burn; to consume; as, to deflagrate oil or spirit.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | To burn; burst into flame; specif., to burn rapidly with a sudden evolution of flame and vapor. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To burn with intense light and heat. Specifically, to combust subsonically through thermal conduction. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DEFLAGRATE
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To deflagrate | Mining | To burn, to burst into flame; specifically, to burn rapidly with a sudden evolution of flame and vapor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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