burn

Plural: burns

Noun

• pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
• a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
• an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
• a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
• damage inflicted by fire
• A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• A sensation resembling such an injury.
• The act of burning something with fire.
• An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• Tobacco.
• The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• A disease in vegetables; brand.
• The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
• A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek. See Etymology 2.
• A large stream.

Verb

Verb Forms: burned, burnt, burning, burns

• To destroy or damage by fire; to consume with flames.
• destroy by fire
  • "They burned the house and his diaries"
• shine intensely, as if with heat
  • "The candles were burning"
• undergo combustion
  • "Maple wood burns well"
• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
  • "The sun burned his face"
• cause to burn or combust
  • "The sun burned off the fog"
• feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
  • "She was burning with anger"
  • "He was burning to try out his new skies"
• cause to undergo combustion
  • "burn garbage"
  • "The car burns only Diesel oil"
• burn at the stake
  • "Witches were burned in Salem"
• spend (significant amounts of money)
  • "He has money to burn"
• feel hot or painful
  • "My eyes are burning"
• burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
• get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
• create by duplicating data
  • "burn a CD"
• use up (energy)
  • "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"
• burn with heat, fire, or radiation
  • "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
• To cause to be consumed by fire.
• To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• To overheat so as to make unusable.
• To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
• To cauterize.
• To sunburn.
• To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
• To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
• To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
• To betray.
• To insult or defeat.
• To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
• In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter.
• To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
• To discard.
• To shoot someone with a firearm.
• To compromise (an agent's cover story).
• To blackmail.
• To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

Examples

• A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
• chili burn from eating hot peppers
• Copper burns in chlorine.
• He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
• He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
• He burnt his hand in the fire.
• He watched the house burn.
• He wished he could burn some of the low-point tiles from his Words With Friends rack.
• I just burned you again.
• My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
• One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
• She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
• She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
• She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
• The child’s forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.
• The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
• The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
• The informant burned him.
• They have a good burn.
• They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
• to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block
• to burn iron in oxygen
• to burn the mouth with pepper
• We have an hour to burn.
• We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
• You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!

Synonyms

bite, burn down, burn mark, burn off, burn up, burning, cauterise, cauterize, combust, cut, fire, glow, incinerate, sting, sunburn, suntan, tan, burn, cinder, forburn, forsweal, fritter, go up, outburn, scathe, singe, squander, torch, vitriolize

Related Words

bourn, brimstone, combust, kindle

Anagrams of burn