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1. n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. | |
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire. | |
2. n. A sensation resembling such an injury. | |
chili burn from eating hot peppers | |
3. n. The act of burning something. | |
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields. | |
4. n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult. | |
5. n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult). | |
6. n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid. | |
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn! | |
7. n. (chiefly prison slang) tobacco | |
8. n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking. | |
They have a good burn. | |
9. n. A disease in vegetables; brand. | |
10. v. To cause to be consumed by fire. | |
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | |
He watched the house burn. | |
12. v. To overheat so as to make unusable. | |
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable. | |
The grill was too hot and the steak burned. | |
14. v. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat. | |
to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block | |
15. v. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage. | |
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years. | |
16. v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize. | |
17. v. To sunburn. | |
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned. | |
18. v. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does. | |
to burn the mouth with pepper | |
19. v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. | |
The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame. | |
20. v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize. | |
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen | |
21. v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat. | |
Copper burns in chlorine. | |
22. v. (transitive, computing) 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. | |
23. v. (transitive, slang) To betray. | |
The informant burned him. | |
24. v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat. | |
I just burned you again. | |
25. v. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources. | |
We have an hour to burn. | |
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year. | |
26. v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. | |
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning! | |
27. v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone. | |
28. v. (transitive, cards) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card. | |
29. v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge). | |
30. v. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star | |
31. v. (intransitive, slang) To discard. | |
32. n. (Scotland, northern England) A stream. | |