1. burn(n = noun.state) burning - pain that feels hot as if it were on fire; Array
is a kind of hurting, pain
Derived forms verb burn4, verb burn10
2. burn(n = noun.state) sunburn, suntan, tan - a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun; Array
is a kind of hyperpigmentation
Derived form verb burn12
3. burn(n = noun.state) Array - an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation; Array
is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
has particulars: electric burn, scorch, singe, scald, first-degree burn, second-degree burn, third-degree burn
Derived form verb burn11
4. burn(n = noun.attribute) burn mark - a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body); Array
is a kind of blemish, defect, mar
has particulars: cigarette burn
Derived forms verb burn15, verb burn7, verb burn1
5. burn(n = noun.act) Array - damage inflicted by fire; Array
is a kind of damage, harm, hurt, scathe
has particulars: scald
Derived forms verb burn15, verb burn3, verb burn7
1. burn(v = verb.change) burn down, fire - destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
is one way to destroy, ruin
Derived forms noun burn4, adjective burnable1
Sample sentences:
They burn the trees
2. burn(v = verb.weather) glow - shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"
is one way to beam, shine
Sample sentences:
Lights burn on the horizon; The horizon is burning with lights
3. burn(v = verb.change) combust - undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well"
is one way to change state, turn
Derived forms noun burn5, adjective burnable1
Sample sentences:
The wooden sticks burn ; These fabrics burn easily
4. burn(v = verb.perception) bite, sting - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
is one way to ache, hurt, smart
Derived form noun burn1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
5. burn(v = verb.weather) combust - cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
Derived form adjective burnable1
Sample sentences:
They burn the trees
6. burn(v = verb.emotion) Array - feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"
is one way to experience, feel
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
7. burn(v = verb.change) incinerate - cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"
is one way to change integrity
Derived forms noun burn5, noun burn4, adjective burnable1, noun burner1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
8. burn(v = verb.social) Array - burn at the stake; "Witches were burned in Salem"
is one way to execute, put to death
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
9. burn(v = verb.possession) Array - spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"
is one way to blow, squander, waste
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
10. burn(v = verb.perception) Array - feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning"
is one way to ache, hurt, smart
Derived form noun burn1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
11. burn(v = verb.change) cauterise, cauterize - burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
is one way to care for, treat
Derived form noun burn3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
12. burn(v = verb.body) sunburn - get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun; Array
is one way to color, colour, discolor, discolour
Derived form noun burn2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
13. burn(v = verb.creation) cut - create by duplicating data; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD"
is one way to create, make, produce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
14. burn(v = verb.consumption) burn off, burn up - use up (energy); "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"
is one way to consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
15. burn(v = verb.change) Array - burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
is one way to damage
Derived forms noun burn5, noun burn4, adjective burnable1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
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. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"This tyrant fever burns me up." [1913 Webster]
"This dry sorrow burns up all my tears." [1913 Webster]
"When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the //ass as fire." [1913 Webster]
6. To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
1. To be of fire; to flame. Deut. ix. 15. [1913 Webster]
2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. [1913 Webster]
"Your meat doth burn, quoth I." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?" [1913 Webster]
"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water." [1913 Webster]
"Burning with high hope." [1913 Webster]
"The groan still deepens, and the combat burns." [1913 Webster]
"The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." [1913 Webster]
4. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. [1913 Webster]
5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [1913 Webster]
1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. [1913 Webster]
2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. [1913 Webster]
3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand,
A small stream. [1913 Webster]
burn, v. & n.
--v. (past and past part. burnt or burned)
1 tr. & intr. be or cause to be consumed or destroyed by fire.
2 intr. a blaze or glow with fire. b be in the state characteristic of fire.
3 tr. & intr. be or cause to be injured or damaged by fire or great heat or by radiation.
4 tr. & intr. use or be used as a source of heat, light, or other energy.
5 tr. & intr. char or scorch in cooking (burned the vegetables; the vegetables are burning).
6 tr. produce (a hole, a mark, etc.) by fire or heat.
7 tr. a subject (clay, chalk, etc.) to heat for a purpose. b harden (bricks) by fire. c make (lime or charcoal) by heat.
8 tr. colour, tan, or parch with heat or light (we were burnt brown by the sun).
9 tr. & intr. put or be put to death by fire.
10 tr. a cauterize, brand. b (foll. by in) imprint by burning.
11 tr. & intr. make or be hot, give or feel a sensation or pain of or like heat.
12 tr. & intr. (often foll. by with) make or be passionate; feel or cause to feel great emotion (burn with shame).
13 intr. sl. drive fast.
14 tr. US sl. anger, infuriate.
15 intr. (foll. by into) (of acid etc.) gradually penetrate (into) causing disintegration.
--n.
1 a mark or injury caused by burning.
2 the ignition of a rocket engine in flight, giving extra thrust.
3 US, Austral., & NZ a forest area cleared by burning.
4 sl. a cigarette.
5 sl. a car race.
Idiom:
burn one's boats (or bridges) commit oneself irrevocably. burn the candle at both ends exhaust one's strength or resources by undertaking too much. burn down
1 a destroy (a building) by burning. b (of a building) be destroyed by fire.
2 burn less vigorously as fuel fails. burn one's fingers suffer for meddling or rashness. burn a hole in one's pocket (of money) be quickly spent. burning-glass a lens for concentrating the sun's rays on an object to burn it. burn low (of fire) be nearly out. burn the midnight oil read or work late into the night.
burn out
1 be reduced to nothing by burning.
2 fail or cause to fail by burning.
3 (usu. refl.) esp. US suffer physical or emotional exhaustion.
4 consume the contents of by burning.
5 make (a person) homeless by burning his or her house. burn-out n.
US
1 physical or emotional exhaustion, esp. caused by stress.
2 depression, disillusionment. burnt ochre (or sienna or umber) a pigment darkened by burning.
burnt offering
1 an offering burnt on an altar as a sacrifice.
2 joc. overcooked food. burnt-out physically or emotionally exhausted.
burn up
1 get rid of by fire.
2 begin to blaze.
3 US sl. be or make furious. have money to burn have more money than one needs.
burn, n. Sc. a small stream.
Etymology:
OE burna etc. f. Gmc
VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.
VB be impatient, not be able to bear, bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit, be in a stew, be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep, toss on one's pillow, lose one's temper, break out, burst out, fly out, go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool, explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn, boil, boil over, foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear, go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics, run riot, run amuck, battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.
VB be near, adjoin, hang about, trench on, border upon, verge upon, stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug, huddle, hang upon the skirts of, hover over, burn, touch, bring near, draw near, converge, crowd, place side by side.
VB love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with, affection, be in love with, have a love, for, entertain a love, for, harbor cherish a love, for, regard, revere, take to, bear love to, be wedded to, set one's affections on, make much of, feast one's eyes on, hold dear, prize, hug, cling to, cherish, pet, burn, adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument, dote on, dote upon, take a fancy to, look sweet upon, become enamored, fall in love with, lose one's heart, desire, excite love, win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections, take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart, attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head, get into favor, ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself, propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.
N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.
VB be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.
VB heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment, make hot, sun oneself, sunbathe, go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame), fire, set fire to, set on fire, kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light, apply the match to, apply the torch to, rekindle, relume, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire, make a bonfire of, melt, thaw, fuse, liquefy, burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch, brand, cauterize, sear, burn in, corrode, char, calcine, incinerate, smelt, scorify, reduce to ashes, burn to a cinder, commit to the flames, consign to the flames, boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer, do to rags, take fire, catch fire, blaze.
VB discover, find, determine, evolve, learn, fix upon, pick up, find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out, fathom, bring out, draw out, educe, elicit, bring to light, dig out, grub up, fish up, unearth, disinter, solve, resolve, elucidate, unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open, pick up, open the lock, find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle, interpret, disclose, trace, get at, hit it, have it, lay one's finger, lay one's hands upon, spot, get at the truth, arrive at the truth, put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head, be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn, smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat, open the eyes to, see through, see daylight, see in its true colors, see the cloven foot, detect, catch, catch tripping, pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon, come across, come onto, meet with, meet up with, fall in with, recognize, realize, verify, make certain of, identify, Int, eureka!, aha!, I've got it!.
burn bag, burn center, burn down, burn mark, burn off, burn out, burn plant, burn the midnight oil, burn up, cigarette burn, electric burn, first-degree burn, rope burn, second-degree burn, third-degree burn