Word Finder - burn

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A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

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She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

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A sensation resembling such an injury.

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chili burn from eating hot peppers

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The act of burning something with fire.

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They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

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An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

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An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).

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Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

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One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

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Tobacco.

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The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

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The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

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They have a good burn.

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A disease in vegetables; brand.

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To cause to be consumed by fire.

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He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

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To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

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He watched the house burn.

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To overheat so as to make unusable.

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He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

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To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

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The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

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To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

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to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block

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To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

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She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

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To cauterize.

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To sunburn.

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She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

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To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

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to burn the mouth with pepper

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To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

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The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.

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To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

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A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen

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To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

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Copper burns in chlorine.

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To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

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We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

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To betray.

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The informant burned him.

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To insult or defeat.

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I just burned you again.

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To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

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The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

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In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

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You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!

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To accidentally touch a moving stone.

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In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

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To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

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(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

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To discard.

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To shoot someone with a firearm.

It looks like it's starting to burn good.

Will they burn the bridge or not?

Tomorrow, it may make me burn them.

What's the impact if we have to burn more?

He stood and watched it burn, feeling as if a part of him burned with it.

It was a fun dinner—he didn't even burn the buns—and he had at least three votes locked in place.

I stuffed it in a trash bag and put it in the burn barrel.

She didn't like it at all, yet her body was already starting to burn for Xander.

He snatched her as she passed, but not before she heard a shot and felt fire burn through her.

They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.

So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden.

Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts' content.

Every care should be taken to burn and char the sod thoroughly without permitting the heap to blaze.

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The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

The superintendent of police, who had gone that morning by Count Rostopchin's orders to burn the barges and had in connection with that matter acquired a large sum of money which was at that moment in his pocket, on seeing a crowd bearing down upon him told his coachman to stop.

Make sure to use the lowest heat or flame setting so as to not burn the chocolate.

Maybe Mrs. Henderson saw Knight's other two marriages crash and burn and was simply advising him to take his time with this marriage and not let the cameras pressure him into rushing it?

Various names are given, such as " pole burn," " pole sweat," " house burn."

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Once you've made your own candle wicks, test them out on a few different sizes of candles to see how well they burn.

The plain and the, road are crossed at right angles by the course of the Brocksburn, or Spott Burn, which at first separated the hostile armies.

The cavalry of his left wing stood fast, west of Doon Hill, as a pivot of manoeuvre, the northern face of Doon (where the ground rises from the burn at an average slope of fifteen degrees and is even steeper near the summit) he left unoccupied.

The artillery was posted on the Dunbar side of the burn, directly opposite and north of Doon, the infantry and cavalry crossed where they could, and formed up gradually in a line south of and roughly parallel to the Berwick road, the extreme left of horse and foot, acting as a reserve, crossed at Brocksmouth House on the outer flank.

The picturesque ruins of Avondale Castle are situated on Powmilion Burn, a stream that runs through Strathaven to join the Avon, a mile below the town.

But, after her brothers' death, she relighted the log, and let it burn away until Meleager died.

Thus the semi 'anthracitic coals of South Wales are known as " dry " or " steam coals," being especially valuable for use in marine steam-boilers, as they burn more readily than anthracite and with a larger amount of flame, while giving out a great amount of heat, and practically without producing smoke.

It may also be rendered visible if a smooth block of free-burning coal is allowed to burn away quickly in an open fire, when the ash remains in thin grey or yellow bands on the surface of the block.

So profitable was sheep-farming seen to be that energetic settlers began to burn off the bracken and cut and burn the forest in the North Island and sow English grasses on the cleared land.

It does not support combustion; and it does not burn readily unless mixed with oxygen, when it burns with a pale yellowish-green flame.

It does not burn, and does not support ordinary combustion, but the alkali metals and magnesium, if strongly heated, will continue to burn in the gas with formation of oxides and liberation of carbon.

He took out patents for lamps to burn oil of tar, for the propulsion of ships at sea, for facilitating excavation, mining and sinking, for rotary steam-engines and for other purposes; and so early as 1843 he was an advocate of the employment of steam and the screw propeller in warships.

Fine aluminium will not burn below the temperature of molten cast iron, and previous experimenters had resorted to heating their mixtures in a crucible.

General Pelham Burn said that he saw loot in Hodson's boxes when he accompanied him from Fatehgarh to take part in the siege of Lucknow, and Sir Henry Daly said that he found "loads of loot" in Hodson's boxes after his death, and also a file of documents relating to the Guides case, which had been stolen from him and of which Hodson denied all knowledge.

For the landscape gardener, the larch is a valuable aid in the formation of park and pleasure ground; but it is never seen to such advantage as when hanging over some tumbling burn or rocky pass among the mountains.

On the night of the 18th he heard that a rival of the Peshwa intended to burn the city.

The fibre and nibs have to be cleaned off by means of a gassing machine so constructed that the end of silk (silk yarn) is frictioned to throw off the nibs, and at the same time is run very rapidly through a gas flame a sufficient number of times to burn off the hairy and fibrous matter without injuring the main thread.

So also it was needful that, like a Greek city, it should have a public hearth or prytaneum, where fire should always burn on the altar of the Olympian Hestia, and where the controllers of Olympia should exercise public hospitality.

It became customary to burn an effigy of Haman at the conclusion of the feast, and this was regarded as in some ways an attack on Christianity and was therefore forbidden by the Theodosian code, XVI.

It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap.

The only remedy is to cut off and burn the diseased branches.

The next great improvement in blast-furnace practice came in 1811, when Aubertot in France used for heating steel the furnace gases rich in carbonic oxide which till then had been allowed to burn uselessly at the top of the blast furnace.

Io, the gas and air in one phase enter at the bottom of all three of the large vertical chambers, burn in passing up wards, and escape at once at the top, as shown by the broken m arrows.

A1TVrt, from a'19cw, burn; Lat.

Thesiger ashore to the crown prince of Denmark (then regent of the kingdom), to say that unless he was allowed to take possession of the hulks which had surrendered he would be compelled to burn them, a course which he deprecated on the ground of humanity and his tenderness of "the brothers of the English the Danes."

Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might compromise him.

Luther had confronted the cardinal legate Cajetan, had passed through his famous controversy at Leipzig with Johann Eck, and was about to burn the bull of excommunication.

A possible alternative is to burn the limestone first and mix the resulting lime with clay, the mixture being burned as before.

Other things being equal, the higher the percentage of lime within the limits indicated above the stronger is the cement, but such highly limed cement is less easy to burn than cement containing about 62% of lime; and unless the burning is thorough and the raw materials are intimately mixed, the cement is apt to be unsound.