Word Finder - burning

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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.

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The act by which something burns or is burned.

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A fire.

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The burnings continued all day.

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So hot as to seem to burn (something).

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the burning sun

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Feeling very hot.

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burning skin

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Feeling great passion.

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her burning heart

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Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.

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burning zeal

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Being keenly discussed.

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a burning question; a burning issue

His eyes were like burning balls of fire.

His body was burning up.

He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away.

Yully touched her burning cheek.

Suddenly he again felt that he was alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head.

The pot-bellied stove crackled with burning wood, and a light in the corner made the cottage feel even cozier.

Her hands rested on Dusty while her gaze remained on the burning clubhouse.

The words echoed in her head, and she walked blindly for several moments, until the cold burning her lungs made her stop.

She turned her head so that he would not see the tears burning her eyes.

Her face was burning.

The fire was burning down, though, so she added more wood.

Sofia sagged, crippled by the burning visions.

I had the previous winter made a small quantity of lime by burning the shells of the Unio fluviatilis, which our river affords, for the sake of the experiment; so that I knew where my materials came from.

The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules.

Lisa clamped a hand over her mouth, her eyes burning with tears.

A burning sensation began in her throat and she realized she was going to heave.

One opened it for him, and she trailed him into a large bedchamber complete with a hearth burning black flames.

The fed building smoldered before him, the scent of metal and burning plastic thick in the air.

The ashes had long since stopped burning, and the air was still filled with magic.

She stared at the door, a confused jumble of emotions burning her eyes.

Jonny's eyes were burning with something inhuman.

Natural gas, like petroleum, was first heard of in West Virginia in connexion with a burning spring on the Kanawha, and there were gas springs on the Big Sandy and the Little Kanawha.

Ostensibly a solemn revenge for the burning of Greek temples by Xerxes, it has been justified as a symbolical act calculated to impress usefully the imagination of the East, and condemned as a senseless and vainglorious work of destruction.

At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreating without a battle, namely the evacuation and burning of Moscow, Rostopchin, who is usually represented as being the instigator of that event, acted in an altogether different manner from Kutuzov.

Who was it? he hissed, his eyes burning with fury.

Carmen stared after him, tears burning her eyes and her stomach twisting in knots.

He felt as if he was burning up from the inside out.

He smelled the scent of his own skin and hair burning.

Her lungs were burning and her legs aching by the time she spotted the tree ringed by stones.

Taran stepped into a cavernous bedchamber lit by low burning hearths and scented by the white flowers sitting in each window.

The burning in her eyes had little to do with the creek water, and after such a cowardly display, she didn't want him to catch her crying.

She hastily withdrew her hand, her cheeks burning again.

The document is entitled "Secrett Inventionis, proffitabill and necessary in theis dayes for defence of this Iland, and withstanding of strangers, enemies of God's truth and religion," a and the inventions consist of (1) a mirror for burning the enemies' ships at any distance, (2) a piece of artillery destroying everything round an arc of a circle, and (3) a round metal chariot, so constructed that its occupants could move it rapidly and easily, while firing out through small holes in it.

Australia possesses one mountain which, though not a volcano, is a " burning mountain."

Its fires are not volcanic, but result from the combustion of coal some distance underground, giving off much smoke and steam; geologists estimate that the burning has been going on for at least 800 years.

Year after year the raids went on under a succession of leaders - Heriold, Roruk, Rolf, Godfrey - and far and wide there was pillaging, burning, murder and slavery.

Two burning questions at the outset confronted Margaret and Granvelle - the question of the new bishoprics and the question of the presence in the Netherlands of a number of Spanish troops.

Following the example of William of Orange, Hoorn, Berghen and other governors, the magistrates generally declined to enforce the edicts, and offered to resign rather than be the instruments for burning and maltreating their fellow-countrymen.

He afterwards reckoned the Leipzig disputation (June-July 1519) and the burning of the papal bull (December 1520) as the beginning of the Reformation.

The enforcement of the first Book of Common Prayer had also been part of his official duties; and the fact that Bonner made no such protest against the burning of heretics as he had done in the former case shows that he found it the more congenial duty.

It has a sharp burning taste, and is very poisonous.

In his last illness he was cauterized, and on seeing the burning iron he addressed "brother Fire," reminding him how he had always loved him and asking him to deal kindly with him.

Relieved from its load it does not, like other animals, seek the shade, even when that is to be found, but prefers to kneel beside its burden in the broad glare of the sun, seeming to luxuriate in the burning sand.

Although these annals were no doubt destroyed at the time of the burning of Rome by the Gauls, they were restored as far as possible and continued until the pontificate of P. Mucius Scaevola, by whom they were finally published in eighty books.

Burning was an English punishment for some secular offences.

The aromatic and irritating fumes emitted by burning amber are mainly due to this acid.

The voyage of Lord Anson to the Pacific in 1740-1744 was of a predatory character, and he lost more than half his men from scurvy; while it is not pleasant to reflect that at the very time when the French and Spaniards were measuring an arc of the meridian at Quito, the British under Anson were pillaging along the coast of the Pacific and burning the town of Payta.

Dozsa's camp at Czegled was the centre of the jacquerie, and from thence he sent out his bands in every direction, pillaging and burning.

When Achilles, enraged with Agamemnon, deserted the Greeks, Hector drove them back to their ships, which he almost succeeded in burning.

When compressed it is also used largely as a refrigerating agent, and in virtue of its property of neither burning nor supporting combustion it is also used as a fire extinctor.