bonfire

A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.

A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.

(figurative) Something like a bonfire in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.

(no longer used) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.

To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.

To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.

(rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.

(no longer used) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.