Illustration: At a rural campsite, an adult uses long metal tongs to place a dry split stick into a raised fire pit. Flames catch the lowered end while the upper end remains visibly unburned, and earlier pieces have become glowing charcoal beneath it.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

燃もやす

moyasu

to burn

Example sentences

彼かれらは石炭せきたんをもやした。
They burned some coal.
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そのスパイは書類しょるいを燃もやした。
The spy burned the papers.
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彼かれらはすべての書類しょるいを燃もやした。
They burned all the documents.
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Kanji in 燃

燃burn; blazeOnネンKunもえる・もやす・もす

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