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Definition of Burn

1. Noun. Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire.

2. Verb. Destroy by fire. "They burn the trees"; "They burned the house and his diaries"

3. Noun. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.

4. Verb. Shine intensely, as if with heat. "The horizon is burning with lights"; "The candles were burning"

5. Noun. An injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation.

6. Verb. Undergo combustion. "These fabrics burn easily"; "Maple wood burns well"

7. Noun. A place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body).

8. Verb. Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. "The sun burned his face"

9. Verb. Cause to burn or combust. "They burn the trees"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

10. Noun. Damage inflicted by fire.

11. Verb. Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion. "He was burning to try out his new skies"

12. Verb. Cause to undergo combustion. "The car burns only Diesel oil"

13. Verb. Burn at the stake. "Witches were burned in Salem"

14. Verb. Spend (significant amounts of money). "He has money to burn"

15. Verb. Feel hot or painful. "My eyes are burning"

16. Verb. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. "The surgeon cauterized the wart"

17. Verb. Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun.

18. Verb. Create by duplicating data. "Burn a CD"

19. Verb. Use up (energy). "Burn off calories through vigorous exercise"

20. Verb. Burn with heat, fire, or radiation. "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"

Definition of Burn

1. v. t. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

2. v. i. To be of fire; to flame.

3. n. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

4. n. A small stream.

Definition of Burn

1. Noun. A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals. ¹

2. Noun. The act of burning something. ¹

3. Noun. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid. ¹

4. Noun. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult. ¹

5. Noun. (UK chiefly prison slang) tobacco ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To become overheated so as to make unusable. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) To sunburn. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive ergative) To cause to be consumed by fire. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive ergative) To overheat so as to make unusable. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive slang) To betray. ¹

15. Verb. (transitive computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. ¹

16. Verb. (transitive) To waste (time). ¹

17. Verb. (transitive slang) To insult or defeat. ¹

18. Verb. (transitive cards) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card. ¹

19. Verb. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare (term dodge)). ¹

20. Noun. (Scotland northern England) A stream. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Burn

1. to destroy by fire [v BURNED or BURNT, BURNING, BURNS]

Medical Definition of Burn

1. 1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. 2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. 3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand. 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. 3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. 4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. 5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. "This tyrant fever burns me up." (Shak) "This dry sorrow burns up all my tears." (Dryden) "When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ass as fire." (Ecclus. Xliii. 20, 21) 6. To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. 7. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal, to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. To burn a bowl, to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" . To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely. Origin: OE. Bernen, brennen, v.t, early confused with beornen, birnen, v.i, AS. Baernan, bernan, v.t, birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. Brinnan, OFries. Barna, berna, OHG. Brinnan, brennan, G. Brennen, OD. Bernen, D. Branden, Dan. Braende, Sw. Branna, brinna, Icel. Brenna, Goth. Brinnan, brannjan (in comp), and possibly to E. Fervent. 1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." 2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. "Your meat doth burn, quoth I." (Shak) 3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?" (Luke xxiv. 32) "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water." (Shak) "Burning with high hope." (Byron) "The groan still deepens, and the combat burns." (Pope) "The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." (Milton) 4. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. 5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burn

burley burleycue burleys burlier burliest burlily burlin' burliness burlinesses burling

burls burlwood burly burlywood burman burn (current term) burn-baited burn-beat burn-clearing burn a hole in one's pocket

burn bag burn book burn center burn down burn in hell burn mark burn notice burn off burn one's bridges burn one's candle at both ends

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