Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being kindled into flame; inflammable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inflammable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of burning, especially a liquid.
- adjective Easily set on fire.
- adjective Subject to easy
ignition and rapidflaming combustion . - noun Any flammable substance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective easily ignited
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from panfishman wrote 22 weeks 5 days ago cotton burns good, cotton soaked in flammable stuff burns really good, a soda can filled to the very top with gasoline will light a fire that is buried under ten inches of snow. the trick is finding what burns best and what lights it easiest.
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Yes | No | Report from panfishman wrote 22 weeks 5 days ago cotton burns good, cotton soaked in flammable stuff burns really good, a soda can filled to the very top with gasoline will light a fire that is buried under ten inches of snow. the trick is finding what burns best and what lights it easiest.
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They look like a man made fabric, so very flammable is the answer.
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These are the people we should be on the look-out for, not just some loser in flammable Adidas who can't work a child-proof Bic lighter.
February 2006 2006
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The facility had no site map indicating where hazardous materials were stored as required by law, and employees had failed to properly label flammable materials including gasoline.
YubaNet.com 2009
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It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.
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It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.
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It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.
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It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
whichbe commented on the word flammable
Non-dairy creamer.
May 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word flammable
*wonders*
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word flammable
That's one intense cup of coffee, whichbe.
May 7, 2008