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Verb: burn off  burn óf
  1. Use up (energy)
    "burn off calories through vigorous exercise";
    - burn, burn up
     
  2. Clear land of its vegetation by burning it off
    "The farmers burned off the stubble in the field after harvest"

Derived forms: burning off, burned off, burns off

Type of: bare, consume, denudate, denude, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, strip, use, use up, wipe out

Encyclopedia: Burn off