Usually means: Burn or ignite with heat.
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  1. combust: Merriam-Webster
  2. combust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. combust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. combust: Collins English Dictionary
  5. combust: Vocabulary.com
  6. combust: Wordnik
  7. combust: Wiktionary
  8. combust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. combust: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Combust, combust: Dictionary.com
  11. Combust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Combust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. combust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. combust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. combust: FreeDictionary.org
  16. combust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. combust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. combust: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. combust: Rhymezone
  20. Combust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  1. combust: Encyclopedia

(Note: See combusting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (combust)

verb:  To burn; to catch fire.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Burnt.
adjective:  (astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
noun:  (obsolete) That which undergoes burning.

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