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Noun: burnup  'burn`úp
  1. [Brit] A high-speed motorcycle race on a public road
     
  2. The amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor)
Verb: burn up
  1. Burn brightly
    - flare, flame up, blaze up
     
  2. Use up (energy)
    - burn off, burn
     
  3. Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
    - burn down, go up

Derived forms: burns up, burnups, burned up, burning up

Type of: burn, combust, consume, consumption, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expenditure, race, run through, use up, using up, wipe out

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