full-burn

1. uncountableA state of full power where thrusters etc. are burning to the maximum.

   "Lieutenant Hikowa, set the Shiva's course for mark one eight zero. Full burn for twelve seconds."

   2001, Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 148

present singular third person full-burns · participle present full-burning · participle past full-burned · past full-burned · participle past full-burnt · past full-burnt

1. ambitransitiveTo burn fully or completely.

   When Kadmi was full-burned we covered him with soil, the heat of his bones making the very earth hiss and steam.

   2008, Janet Lee Carey, Dragon's Keep

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   The chalk which is laid in the morning in the kiln to burn, is in it, sometimes two, sometimes three days, before it passes through the kiln, and becomes full-burned.

   1892, Pehr Kalm, Kalm's account of his visit to England

   Cyan full-burned the thrusters to gain speed, turning the shuttle away from the planet toward the distant moons.

   2011, Laurann Dohner, Taunting Krell