combust

Verb

• undergo combustion
  • Maple wood burns well
    

• cause to become violent or angry
  • Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan
    

• get very angry and fly into a rage
  • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    
  • Spam makes me go ballistic
    

• start to burn or burst into flames
  • Marsh gases ignited suddenly
    
  • The oily rags combusted spontaneously
    

• cause to burn or combust
  • The sun burned off the fog
    
  • We combust coal and other fossil fuels
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  burn , erupt , ignite , catch fire , take fire , conflagrate