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To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight. / (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.

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bonfire

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Source Word

bonfire

IPA(Pronunciation)

transitive obsolete intransitive rare

Japanese Meaning

（1）焚き火で何かを焼却する、燃やす、火をつける。 / （2）陶芸において、ぼんファイア（屋外の焚き火）を利用して陶器を焼く。

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They planned to bonfire the confidential documents after the audit.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼らは監査後に機密文書を焚き火で焼却する計画を立てた。

Sense（1）

To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.

Sense（2）

(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.

The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.

Sense（4）

(intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.

[W]hen the news of the battle of Lissa came even to our remote quarter of Ireland, we considered it as a triumph for the cause of Protestantism, and illuminated, and bonfired, and had a sermon at church, and kept the Prussian king's birthday, on which my uncle would get drunk, as indeed on any other occasion.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

bonfires

（ present singular third-person ）

bonfiring

（ participle present ）

bonfired

（ participle past ）

bonfired

（ past ）

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