burning

[ UK /bˈɜːnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝnɪŋ/ ]

NOUN

execution by fire
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

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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.