slow-burning
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slow-burning (comparative more slow-burning, superlative most slow-burning)
- Which burns more slowly than comparable objects.
- Just before boarding the vessel that he was attacking, Blackbeard would take slow-burning fuse matches and, with bright red ribbon, tie them in his hair and beard. When lit, these smoking matches gave him the appearance of the Devil.
- Made of material designed to resist fire.
- Antonym: long-burning