burn
IPA: bˈɝn
noun
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A kind of watercourse.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
- A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
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Examples of "burn" in Sentences
- The wick is burning with fire.
- The fire burned much of the rest of the article.
- The fire burned on the third floor of the building.
- The second fire continued burning toward Grindstone Canyon.
- The rectory was burned in the fire, but the church survived.
- In front of the monument, the eternity fire burns continuously.
- Urvashi is praising the fire that burns in the souls of mortals.
- The radioactivity of the burning material is an additional hazard.
- When the sun hit his body in the summer it would shimmer like a burning fire.
- The main emphasis of the festival is on the burning of the holy fire or Holika.