burn away

Verb

Meaning

to remove or be removed by burning
The laser burned away the excess body hair.

(figuratively, by extension) to remove instantly and forcefully; to evaporate

Examples

... so vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. William Faulkner

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind. Andrew Biersack

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals. Sylvia Plath

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