To Burn Something, To Set On Fire
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means burn and the verb vocab version is to burn something, or to set on fire.
もやす
This is when you're burning something. To remember this meaning, you have to remember the も part. So, just think of your friend Moe (も), and how you're going to burn him... uh... just a little bit.
落ち葉を燃やして焼きイモを作ります。
We're going to burn some fallen leaves and make baked sweet potatoes.
フグは不可燃ゴミを燃やして毒ガスを発生させた。
Fugu produced poison gas by burning non-burnable trash.
何かを完全に灰になるまで燃やすことが大好きだ。
I really like burning things until they’re reduced to ashes.