burning away
Slowly being consumed
Burning away describes fire or heat gradually consuming something until it's gone: The morning sun was burning away the fog.
It can also mean continuous burning over time: The candle kept burning away through the night.
Figuratively, burning away suggests the slow elimination of unwanted things—calories, excess, doubt: Exercise was burning away the stress of the week.
- going up in smokeBeing destroyed or wasted
- blazingBurning very brightly
- firingTerminating employment
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- vaporizationConversion to gas
up in flames · combustion · erosion · dissolution · depletion · catharsis · ember · fire · exhaustion · heat death · ash · char · incineration · smoke · ignition · flame · scorch · decay
burning awayextinguishing
Causing to stop burning
putting out · dousing · quenching · smothering · snuffing out
burning awaybuilding up
Increasing gradually
accumulating · amassing · piling up · growing · preserving
burning awaypreserving
Protecting from deterioration
enduring · remaining · persisting · lasting · conserving
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