English Dictionary

bonfire

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɒnfaɪə/

動詞

他動詞 廃用 自動詞 稀用

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.

日本語の意味

（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。

They planned to bonfire the confidential documents after the audit.

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。

意味（1）

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

[L]ike the Christmas joke of snapdragons for children, the very liquor was to be bonfired also, and drank burning.

意味（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.

意味（3）

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

They almost carried him [the king] into the palace on their shoulders; and at night the whole town was illuminated and bonfired.

意味（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.

bonfires （ present singular third-person ）

bonfiring （ participle present ）

bonfired （ participle past ）

bonfired （ past ）