Definition of Burn

Verb: burn (burned, also burnt)  burn

  1. Destroy by fire
    "They burned the house and his diaries";
    - fire, burn down
     
  2. Shine intensely, as if with heat
    "The candles were burning";
    - glow
     
  3. Undergo combustion
    "Maple wood burns well";
    - combust
     
  4. Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
    "The sun burned his face";
    - bite, sting
     
  5. Cause to burn or combust
    "The sun burned off the fog";
    - combust
     
  6. Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
    "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skis"
     
  7. Cause to undergo combustion
    "The car burns only Diesel oil"; "burn garbage";
    - incinerate
     
  8. Burn at the stake
    "Witches were burned in Salem"
     
  9. Spend (significant amounts of money)
    "He has money to burn"
     
  10. Feel hot or painful
    "My eyes are burning"
     
  11. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
    "The surgeon burned the wart";
    - cauterize, cauterise [Brit]
     
  12. Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
    - sunburn
     
  13. Create by duplicating data
    "burn a CD";
    - cut
     
  14. Use up (energy)
    "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"; "burn up calories through vigorous exercise";
    - burn off, burn up
     
  15. Burn with heat, fire, or radiation
Noun: burn  burn
  1. Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
    - burning
     
  2. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
    - tan, suntan, sunburn
     
  3. An injury caused by exposure to heat, chemicals or radiation
     
  4. A place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
    - burn mark
     
  5. Damage inflicted by fire

See also:
Burmese
burnability

Anagrams containing the word burn

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