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flammable

/flam-uh-buhl/US // ˈflæm ə bəl //UK // (ˈflæməbəl) //

可燃性,易燃,易燃性,可燃

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.

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Examples

  • The roof is already metal—a good thing—but the more I looked at the log cabin and its wooden deck and all the places embers could land and wedge in flammable places, I realized there was only so much we could do.

  • That’s because there’ll simply be less, or less flammable, fuel to burn.

  • Usually, ordering the seizure of a country’s sovereign assets is a flammable move, and courts take their time to execute and enforce such orders.

  • A record-breaking September heat wave, along with preceding summer heat, led to highly flammable vegetation west of the Cascades, a region that rarely sees severe fires.

  • The barrier stops flammable gas migrating into surrounding buildings leading to multiple explosions.

  • That can happen, according to the report, when (flammable) methane leaks out of fracking wells and into drinking water.

  • He doused himself with two plastic bottles of flammable liquids, and he set himself on fire.

  • Ordinary people flocked to the Maidan, burning anything flammable and uprooting hunks of pavement to throw at police.

  • The cabin was quickly engulfed, accelerated by highly flammable tear gas.

  • Hearings for Supreme Court justices, decisions of war, flammable federal scandals.