burn

Definitions of burn in various dictionaries:

noun - pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

noun - a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun

noun - an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation

noun - a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)

noun - damage inflicted by fire

verb - destroy by fire

verb - shine intensely, as if with heat

verb - undergo combustion

verb - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

verb - cause to burn or combust

verb - feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion

verb - cause to undergo combustion

verb - burn at the stake

verb - spend (significant amounts of money)

verb - feel hot or painful

verb - burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

verb - get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

verb - create by duplicating data

verb - use up (energy)

verb - burn with heat, fire, or radiation

To cause to undergo combustion.

To destroy with fire: burned the trash; burn a house down.

To consume (fuel or energy, for example): burned all the wood that winter.

To cause to undergo nuclear fission or fusion.

To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent: burned the toast; burned my skin with the acid.

To execute or kill with fire: burning heretics at the stake.

To execute by electrocution.

To make or produce by fire or heat: burn a hole in the rug.

To dispel; dissipate: The sun burned off the fog.

To use as a fuel: a furnace that burns coal.

To metabolize (glucose, for example) in the body.

To impart a sensation of intense heat to: The chili burned my mouth.

To irritate or inflame, as by chafing or sunburn.

To let (oneself or a part of one’s body) become sunburned.

To brand (an animal).

To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire: burn clay pots in a kiln.

To make angry: That remark really burns me.

To defeat in a contest, especially by a narrow margin.

To inflict harm or hardship on; hurt: “Huge loan losses have burned banks in recent years” (Christian Science Monitor).

To swindle or deceive; cheat: We really got burned on the used car we bought.

To undergo combustion.

To admit of burning: Wood burns easily.

To consume fuel: a rocket stage designed to burn for three minutes before being jettisoned.

To undergo nuclear fission or fusion.

To emit heat or light by or as if by fire: campfires burning in the dark; the sun burning brightly in the sky.

To become dissipated or to be dispelled by or as if by heat: The fog burned off as the sun came up.

To give off light; shine: a light burning over the door.

To be destroyed, injured, damaged, or changed by or as if by fire: a house that burned to the ground; eggs that burned and stuck to the pan.

To be very hot; bake: a desert burning under the midday sun.

To feel or look hot: a child burning with fever.

To impart a sensation of heat: a liniment that burns when first applied.

To become irritated or painful, as by chafing or inflammation: eyes burning from the smoke.

To become sunburned or windburned.

To be or become angry: an insult that really made me burn.

To be very eager: was burning with ambition.

To penetrate by or as if by intense heat or flames: enemy ground radar burning through the fighters’ electronic jammers; a look that burned into them.

To be vividly or painfully present: shame burning in my heart.

To suffer punishment or death by or as if by fire: souls burning in hell.

To be electrocuted.

An injury produced by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.

A burned place or area: a cigarette burn in the tablecloth.

The process or result of burning: The fire settled down to a steady burn.

A stinging sensation: the burn of alcohol on an open wound.

A sunburn or windburn.

A firing of a rocket.

A swindle.

To stop burning from lack of fuel.

To wear out or make or become inoperative as a result of heat or friction: The short circuit burned out the fuse.

To cause (a property owner or a resident) to have to evacuate the premises because of fire: The shopkeeper was burned out by arsonists.

To make or become exhausted, especially as a result of long-term stress: “Hours are long, stress is high, and many recruits drop out or burn out” (Robert J.

To make angry: Their rudeness really burns me up.

These verb s mean to injure or alter by means of intense heat or flames.

A small stream; a brook.

verb - to destroy by fire

BURN - A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation. Most burns are due to he...