Definition of “burn off”

Adamson had opted for music called Feet Of Flames to burn off the Australian challenge.

I advise beginners to try three sets of three minutes - which will burn off nearly 100 calories.

I watched her car burn off up the lane, then went in disconsolately.

If you eat more than you burn off in activity you get fat, and if you eat less than you burn off you get thin.

Morning broke to fog, but its brightness announced that it would burn off quickly.

Not to worry - she'd burn off that and more just fuming over her tax bill which was due next Wednesday.

The quickest way to burn off your extra stuffing would be to spend three hours shovelling soil!

They will then burn off layers of silicon carbide with a laser to free the captured oxygen for analysis with mass spectrometry.

We rested here, and stripped off our upper clothing to burn off some of the leeches.