combust

Other forms of combust

past tense

combusted·

present participle

combusting·

third person

combusts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about combust

What does combust mean?

combust means "cause to burn or combust". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in combust?

combust has 2 syllables: com-bust. The stress falls on "bust". In IPA it is /kəmˈbʌst/.

What is another word for combust?

Close synonyms include burn, erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combust a common word?

combust is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with combust?

2 words rhyme with combust. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.