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UK
/bˈɜːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɝnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- execution by fire
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the act of burning something
the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance - pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
- execution by electricity
ADJECTIVE
-
of immediate import
burning issues of the day
How To Use burning In A Sentence
- 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
- One page of the menu is devoted to cheeses (domestic and imported), another to charcuterie, salads, meat and fish, the third to items from the wood-burning oven.
- They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
- So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him. Mother West Wind's Children
- Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects of burning more coal.
- There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
- The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
- He is out there somewhere, lurking in the shadows of the underworld and, I do not doubt, burning for revenge. LION IN THE VALLEY
- The circulating nurse instills tetracaine hydrochloride drops to decrease the burning sensation of the diluted povidone-iodine solution.
