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🔥 A black fuel 🕴️ Very dark grey ✏️ A black sketch ⬛ A dark grey ✏️ To sketch 🍞 To burn black
to charcoal

to charcoal

6.5
To burn something until it becomes black and hard
  • verb
  • /ˈtʃɑrˌkoʊl/
translation icon : carbonizar
  • If you leave the marshmallows in the fire too long, they will charcoal and taste burnt.

Examples

  • Be careful not to charcoal the steak; it needs to be cooked evenly for the best flavor.

  • One is lighting your raw material on fire and making it into charcoal fines.

  • The chef accidentally charcoaled the vegetables while trying to grill them on high heat.

Synonyms

to burn
vsto charcoal
∞ 1.0

To be on fire or damage something with heat

focuses on intense blackening until the whole item turns to black brittle residue
to char
vsto charcoal
53 4.6

To burn the surface of something so it becomes black

goes further, turning deeply until it becomes black brittle residue

Antonyms

to preserve
496 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

to restore
219 3.5

Return something like a painting or building to its original working condition

Compounds

activated charcoal
  • Specialized
1 4.1

A black material made from carbon with many tiny holes that soaks up poisons and impurities

charcoal gray
  • US
1 3.1

A very dark gray like the color of charcoal

charcoal burner
4.5

A small stove that burns charcoal for heat or cooking

charcoal burner
  • Archaic
7.7

A person who makes fuel for fires by burning wood slowly

charcoal pile
  • Archaic
7.4

A heap of wood covered with earth that people slowly burn to make fuel

charcoal-gray
  • US
3.2

Very dark gray like the color of burned wood

animal charcoal
  • Specialized
7.5

A black material made by burning animal bones used to color things and clean liquids

How Charred

to burn
∞ 1.0
to charcoal
6.5
to blacken
19 3.4
to char
53 4.6
to scorch
20 3.5
to singe
6 4.2

Surface Forms

charcoal infinitive
charcoaled past
charcoaled past participle
charcoaling present participle
charcoals third person singular

Etymology

Charcoal comes from char ('to burn') and coal ('coal'), and a helpful way to remember it is that to 'charcoal' something is to burn or blacken it until it looks like charcoal.