Burn

[bɜːn] or [bɝn]

Definition

(noun.) damage inflicted by fire.

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

(noun.) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation.

(noun.) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire.

(verb.) burn with heat, fire, or radiation; 'The iron burnt a hole in my dress'.

(verb.) undergo combustion; 'Maple wood burns well'.

(verb.) cause to undergo combustion; 'burn garbage'; 'The car burns only Diesel oil'.

(verb.) destroy by fire; 'They burned the house and his diaries'.

(verb.) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; 'She was burning with anger'; 'He was burning to try out his new skies'.

(verb.) feel hot or painful; 'My eyes are burning'.

(verb.) spend (significant amounts of money); 'He has money to burn'.

(verb.) burn at the stake; 'Witches were burned in Salem'.

(verb.) cause to burn or combust; 'The sun burned off the fog'; 'We combust coal and other fossil fuels'.

(verb.) shine intensely, as if with heat; 'The coals were glowing in the dark'; 'The candles were burning'.

Edited by Harold--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.

(v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.

(v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

(n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

(n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

(n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

(n.) A small stream.

Editor: Sonya

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Consume with fire, reduce to ashes.[2]. Calcine, char, scorch, toast, parch, bake.[3]. Injure by fire or heat.[4]. Shrivel, cause to wither.

v. n. [1]. Flame, be on fire.[2]. Glow, warm, be excited.

n. [Scottish.] Brook, rivulet, streamlet, runnel, rivulet, rill, small stream.

Checker: Selma

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash,cremate, incinerate

ANT:Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale

Inputed by Jane

Definition

n. a small stream or brook: a spring or fountain.

v.t. to consume or injure by fire.—v.i. to be on fire: to feel excess of heat: to be inflamed with passion:—pa.p. burned or burnt.—n. a hurt or mark caused by fire.—ns. Burn′er the part of a lamp or gas-jet from which the flame arises; Burn′ing act of consuming by fire: conflagration: inflammation.—adj. very hot: scorching: ardent: excessive.—ns. Burn′ing-glass a convex lens concentrating the sun's rays at its focus; Burn′ing-house a kiln; Burn′ing-mirr′or a concave mirror for producing heat by concentrating the sun's rays; Burn′ing-point the temperature at which a volatile oil in an open vessel will take fire from a match held close to its surface; Burnt′-ear a kind of smut in oats wheat &c. caused by a microscopic fungus; Burnt′-off′ering something offered and burned upon an altar as a sacrifice—amongst the Hebrews apparently offerings of dedication and to some extent of expiation; Burnt′-sienn′a (see Sienna); Burn′-the-wind (Scot.) a blacksmith.—Burn a hole in one's pocket said of money when one is eager to spend it; Burn blue to burn with a bluish flame like that of brimstone; Burn daylight (Shak.) to waste time in superfluous actions; Burn down to burn to the ground; Burn in to eat into as fire: to fix and render durable as colours by means of intense heat to imprint indelibly on the mind; Burning bush the emblem of the Presbyterian churches of Scotland with the motto 'Nec tamen consumebatur ' adopted from Ex. iii. 2 in memory of the unconquerable courage of the Covenanters under the cruel persecutions of the 17th century; Burning question one being keenly discussed; Burn one's boats to cut one's self off as Cortes did from all chance of retreat to stake everything on success; Burn one's fingers to suffer from interfering in others' affairs from embarking in speculations &c.; Burn out to destroy by means of burning: to burn till the fire dies down from want of fuel; Burn the water to spear salmon by torchlight; Burn up to consume completely by fire: to be burned completely.

Typist: Melville