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burn

UK /bɜːn/US /bɝn/

verb40

  1. to be on fire and be destroyed by it
  2. To cause to be consumed by fire; to destroy or otherwise impact with fire or flames.
  3. To sunburn.
  4. To cauterize.
  5. To injure (a person or animal) with heat, flames or scorching.
  6. To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; to injure with acid or other chemical reactions; to be painful as if by fire or heat; to be hot.
  7. To become overheated to the point of being unusable; to become scorched.
  8. To overheat so as to make unusable.
  9. To use up; to use by burning; to consume as fuel.
  10. To waste time, money or other resources.
  11. To lose motor oil because it leaks into the combustion chamber and ignites along with the fuel.
  12. To contain a fire or coals.
  13. To ignite (something); to light and smoke (a cigarette, joint, etc.).
  14. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  15. To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
  16. (figurative) To desire or ache for (something); to be intense, as a desire.
  17. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
  18. To subject to misfortune or maltreatment; to swindle or rob.
  19. (slang) To betray; to con or rob.
  20. (figurative) To give off light; to be lit up; to shine so bright as to seem to harm (something).
  21. To warm (something); to put off intense heat; to be hot.
  22. To be executed by an electric chair.
  23. To kill by fire.
  24. To make or produce by the application of real or figurative fire, light or burning heat.
  25. (figurative) To irritate; to be or become angry or upset.
  26. To defeat, overcome or score on.
  27. (slang, figurative) To insult or defeat.
  28. To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star; to undergo nuclear fusion or nuclear fission.
  29. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
  30. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
  31. To transform using fire.
  32. To harden (bricks, pottery, etc.) in a kiln.
  33. (figurative) To approach near to a concealed object which is sought, especially in certain games; to be so near as to be figuratively burnt by a hidden target.
  34. To compromise (a cover story).
  35. To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
  36. (slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
  37. To blackmail.
  38. To swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
  39. (slang) To discard.
  40. To accidentally touch a moving stone.

noun16

  1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
  2. A mark left behind by a burn; a scorch or scar caused by a burn.
  3. An abrasion resembling a burn.
  4. The act or action of burning something with fire, or by analogous means; the quality or nature of an act of burning.
  5. The act of using a controlled burn to reduce wildfire risk through use of low-intensity fires to eliminate fuel; a prescribed burn.
  6. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
  7. The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
  8. A sensation resembling an injury from heat or an analogous force; the quality or nature of a burning sensation caused by capsaicin.
  9. A physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by a build-up of lactic acid.
  10. (slang, figurative) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
  11. (slang, figurative) An effective insult, especially a clever or funny one.
  12. (figurative) Anger, especially slowly mounting in intensity.
  13. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  14. (Scotland, Northern-England) A large stream.
  15. A disease in vegetables, which causes discoloration that looks like a burn.
  16. (UK, slang) Tobacco.
forms

brent · burn'd · burned · burnt · burnedst · burntest · ybrent · burning · burneth · burns · burnest

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