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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.