Burn

noun burns · born · burne

1. countable, uncountable A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
2. countable, uncountable A mark left behind by a burn; a scorch or scar caused by a burn. Cut the cigarette burn out from the fabric.
3. countable, uncountable An abrasion resembling a burn. carpet burn, rope burn, rug burn, turf burn
4. uncountable A disease in vegetables, which causes discoloration that looks like a burn.
5. countable, uncountable A sensation resembling an injury from heat or an analogous force; the quality or nature of a burning sensation caused by capsaicin. I dread the burn of the disinfectant where it enters an open wound.
6. countable, uncountable A physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by a build-up of lactic acid. One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn in your thighs!
7. countable, figuratively, uncountable Anger, especially slowly mounting in intensity. a slow burn
8. countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
9. countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable An effective insult, especially a clever or funny one. sick burn
10. countable, uncountable The act or action of burning something with fire, or by analogous means; the quality or nature of an act of burning. They’re doing a monitored burn of the fields.
11. countable, uncountable The act of using a controlled burn to reduce wildfire risk through use of low-intensity fires to eliminate fuel; a prescribed burn. The burn will reduce the risk of a forest fire in the fall.
12. countable, uncountable The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking. They have a good burn.
13. countable, uncountable The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course. On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]
14. UK, metonymically, slang, uncountable Tobacco. TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.
15. countable, uncountable The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.

verb burns · burning · burned · burnt

1. intransitive To be consumed by fire or in flames. He watched the house burn.
2. intransitive To contain a fire or coals. The wood stove was burning, giving off plenty of heat.
3. intransitive To become overheated to the point of being unusable; to become scorched. The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
4. intransitive To be executed by an electric chair. In this state, he could burn for his crimes.
5. intransitive To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. The child’s forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.
6. figuratively, intransitive To approach near to a concealed object which is sought, especially in certain games; to be so near as to be figuratively burnt by a hidden target. You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!
7. US, figuratively, intransitive To desire or ache for (something); to be intense, as a desire. I burn for her touch.
8. intransitive To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star; to undergo nuclear fusion or nuclear fission.
9. ambitransitive To warm (something); to put off intense heat; to be hot. The heat from the open oven burned the air around me.
10. ambitransitive, figuratively To give off light; to be lit up; to shine so bright as to seem to harm (something). That bulb has been burning for years.
11. ambitransitive To sunburn. She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
12. ambitransitive, figuratively To irritate; to be or become angry or upset. After you said that, she was burning all afternoon.
13. transitive To cause to be consumed by fire; to destroy or otherwise impact with fire or flames. We'll burn all this wood by morning.
14. transitive To ignite (something); to light and smoke (a cigarette, joint, etc.). She burned a cigarette with her lighter.
15. transitive To overheat so as to make unusable. He burned the toast.    The blacksmith burned the steel.
16. transitive To kill by fire. She was burned at the stake.
17. transitive To transform using fire. The factory will burn that wood into charcoal.
18. transitive To use up; to use by burning; to consume as fuel. I need to burn some calories.
19. transitive To waste time, money or other resources. We have an hour to burn.
20. transitive To lose motor oil because it leaks into the combustion chamber and ignites along with the fuel. I think my car is burning oil.
21. transitive To cauterize. I had to burn the wound to stop the bleeding.
22. transitive To harden (bricks, pottery, etc.) in a kiln.
23. transitive To injure (a person or animal) with heat, flames or scorching. She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
24. figuratively, slang, transitive To insult or defeat. I just burned you again.
25. transitive To make or produce by the application of real or figurative fire, light or burning heat. to burn a hole;    to burn letters into a block
26. transitive To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
27. broadly, transitive To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs). My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
28. transitive To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
29. intransitive, transitive To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; to injure with acid or other chemical reactions; to be painful as if by fire or heat; to be hot. Be careful, as that chemical is acidic enough to burn you.
30. intransitive, transitive To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize. to burn iron in oxygen
31. dated, intransitive, transitive To combine energetically, with evolution of heat. Copper burns in chlorine.
32. To defeat, overcome or score on. The Rangers burned the visiting team.
33. transitive To subject to misfortune or maltreatment; to swindle or rob. I've been burned before by these kinds of promises.
34. slang, transitive To betray; to con or rob. The informant burned him.
35. slang, transitive To shoot someone with a firearm.
36. transitive To compromise (a cover story). He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.
37. transitive To blackmail. "How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]
38. transitive To swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
39. intransitive To accidentally touch a moving stone.
40. intransitive, slang To discard.

Similar: burn, combust, forburn, go up, outburn, torch

noun burns · born · burne

1. Northern England, Scotland A large stream. This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

proper noun Burns

1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
2. countable, uncountable A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
3. countable, uncountable A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
4. countable, uncountable A river in North Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Ure.
5. countable, uncountable A surname.