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backburning

backburning is the present participle and gerund of backburn.

Meaning of backburn

Verb

backburn (third-person singular simple present backburns, present participle backburning, simple past and past participle backburned or backburnt)

  1. To light a fire for this reason.

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Questions about backburning

What is backburning the present participle and gerund of?
Backburning is the present participle and gerund of backburn.

Words near backburning in the dictionary

  1. backburned
  2. backburner
  3. backburnered
  4. backburnering
  5. backburners
  6. backburning
  7. backburns
  8. backburnt
  9. backcalculate
  10. backcalculated
  11. backcalculation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backburning (page history and authors); backburn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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