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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

blaze, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burst, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming, flare, flare-up, flash, flash fire, incineration, outburst, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyrolysis, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication

Dictionary Results for deflagration:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

deflagration
    n 1: combustion that propagates through a gas or along the
         surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the
         transfer of heat

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Deflagration \Def`la*gra"tion\, n. [L. deflagratio: cf. F.
   d['e]flagration.]
   1. A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and
      deflagrations." --Bp. Pearson.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Chem.) The act or process of deflagrating.
      [1913 Webster]

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