Verb: burn off burn óf
- Use up (energy)
"burn off calories through vigorous exercise";
- burn, burn up
- 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