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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
2. A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
3. (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
4. (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.

Verbi

1. To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
2. (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
3. (obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
4. (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.