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UK
/bˈɜːn/
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[ US /ˈbɝn/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝn/ ]
VERB
-
execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
Witches were burned in Salem -
feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
He was burning to try out his new skies
She was burning with anger -
feel hot or painful
My eyes are burning -
shine intensely, as if with heat
The candles were burning
The coals were glowing in the dark -
use up (energy)
burn off calories through vigorous exercise -
damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
The iron burnt a hole in my dress -
create by duplicating data
burn a CD
cut a disk -
undergo combustion
Maple wood burns well - get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
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cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
The sun burned his face -
cause to undergo combustion
The car burns only Diesel oil
burn garbage -
spend (significant amounts of money)
He has money to burn -
destroy by fire
They burned the house and his diaries -
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
The surgeon cauterized the wart -
cause to burn or combust
We combust coal and other fossil fuels
The sun burned off the fog
NOUN
- damage inflicted by fire
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
How To Use burn In A Sentence
- They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
- Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
- Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
- Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
- The capon burns, and the pig falls from the spit, and the meal will BE all cold if you do not come home.
- There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
- We were visiting homes and hospitals to see football fans who had been badly burnt. Times, Sunday Times
- Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
- The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
