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barn-burning

barn-burning is the alternative form of barnburning.

Meaning of barnburning

Adjective

barnburning (comparative more barnburning, superlative most barnburning)

  1. Very exciting or successful.
    • The mayor delivered a barnburning speech.

Forms of barn-burning

comparativemore barn-burning
superlativemost barn-burning

Questions about barn-burning

What is barn-burning the alternative form of?
Barn-burning is the alternative form of barnburning.

Words near barn-burning in the dictionary

  1. barn sales
  2. barn star
  3. barn stars
  4. barn swallow
  5. barn swallows
  6. barn-burning
  7. barn-door
  8. barn-doors
  9. barn-like
  10. barn-raising
  11. barn-raisings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barn-burning (page history and authors); barnburning (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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