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fagged

same as burned out 1

Parch

To burn the surface of to scorch to roast over the fire as dry grain as to parch the skin

Flare

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame as the candle flares

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Overburn

To burn too much to be overzealous

Scald

To burn with hot liquid or steam to pain or injure by contact with or immersion in any hot fluid

Scorch

To burn superficially to parch or shrivel the surface of by heat to subject to so much heat as changes

Smolder

To burn and smoke without flame to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion

Otherwise than under normal circumstances

circumstances, means death not being in the usual course but apparently under suspicious circumstances if not caused by burns or bodily injury, Shanti v. State of Haryana, 1991 (1) SCC 371. The terms 'normal circumstances' apparently means

Smoke

The visible exhalation vapor or substance that escapes or expelled from a burning body especially from burning vegetable matter as wood coal peat or the like

Pilot light

a small gas flame kept burning continuously on a stove water heater or other gas burning device so as to allow immediate ignition of

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