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slow-burns

slow-burns is the plural of slow-burn.

slow-burns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slow-burn.

Meaning of slow-burn

Adjective

slow-burn (comparative more slow-burn, superlative most slow-burn)

  1. (idiomatic) Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.
    • This restructuring is a slow-burn disaster for the funding of the Russian war machine.2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    slow-burning
    1. (idiomatic, slang) Developing slowly over the course of the story.
      • Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.2018, Jessica Spotswood, The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, unnumbered page

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Questions about slow-burns

What is slow-burns the plural of?
Slow-burns is the plural of slow-burn.

Words near slow-burns in the dictionary

  1. slow-bellies
  2. slow-belly
  3. slow-burn
  4. slow-burned
  5. slow-burning
  6. slow-burns
  7. slow-contact
  8. slow-cook
  9. slow-cooked
  10. slow-cooking
  11. slow-cooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slow-burns (page history and authors); slow-burn (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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