burn

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  The children watch the toy village burning
• WordNet 3.6
  • v burn get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
  • v burn burn with heat, fire, or radiation "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
  • v burn burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
  • v burn undergo combustion "Maple wood burns well"
  • v burn cause to undergo combustion "burn garbage","The car burns only Diesel oil"
  • v burn destroy by fire "They burned the house and his diaries"
  • v burn use up (energy) "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"
  • v burn create by duplicating data "cut a disk","burn a CD"
  • v burn feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion "She was burning with anger","He was burning to try out his new skies"
  • v burn cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort "The sun burned his face"
  • v burn feel hot or painful "My eyes are burning"
  • v burn spend (significant amounts of money) "He has money to burn"
  • v burn burn at the stake "Witches were burned in Salem"
  • v burn cause to burn or combust "The sun burned off the fog","We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
  • v burn shine intensely, as if with heat "The coals were glowing in the dark","The candles were burning"
  • n burn damage inflicted by fire
  • n burn a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
  • n burn an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
  • n burn a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
  • n burn pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
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Dressing a gas burn case

BURNING CLOTH IN THE LABORATORY

A mansion structure or public building dating from the second quarter of the 17th century. Rebuilt once and burned...

A 17th-century lime kiln excavated at Jamestown. In it oyster shells from the James River were burned for making...

Poor Pinocchio's Feet Burn to Cinders

Burned to the Water's Edge

fire of love that burns in the hearts of people

The Burning of Jamestown

• Interesting fact: The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel
• • Burn A disease in vegetables. See Brand n., 6.
  • Burn A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
  • n Burn A small stream. "A little brook or strippet ."
  • Burn In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  • Burn The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn .
  • Burn (Surg) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
  • Burn To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire."
  • Burn (Chem) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
  • Burn (Chem) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
  • Burn To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place."
  • Burn To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. "This tyrant fever burns me up.""This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.""When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire."
  • Burn To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?""The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water.""Burning with high hope.""The groan still deepens, and the combat burns .""The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."
  • Burn To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
  • Burn To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
  • Burn To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
  • Burn To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. "Your meat doth burn , quoth I."
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• Interesting fact: You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
• • burn To consume with fire; destroy or reduce to ashesby the action of heat or fire.
  • burn To act on with fire; expose to the action of fire: as, to burn clay; to burn wood for charcoal; toburn limestone.
  • burn To produce by means of fire: as, to burn charcoal.
  • burn To scorch; affect or injure by heat: as, to burn one's clothes by being too near the fire; to burn one's fingers; to burn bread or meat.
  • burn To inflame or tan (the skin), as sunlight.
  • burn To produce an effect like that of fire; heat or inflame; affect with a burning sensation: as, ardent spirits burn the stomach; a burning fever.
  • burn In chem., to combine with oxygen; oxygenize.
  • burn In surgery, to apply a cautery to; cauterize.
  • burn To be on fire; flame: as, the fuel burns.
  • burn To become charred, singed, or scorched; be injured by undue exposure to fire or a heated surface, etc.: as, milk or oatmeal burns if cooked without stirring.
  • burn To become inflamed or tanned, or to become disintegrated by the effect of heat and reflected sunlight, as the skin from unusual or prolonged exposure to the sun or to the glare from a sheet of water.
  • burn To glow like fire; shine; gleam.
  • burn To be inflamed with passion or desire; be affected with strong emotion: as, to burn with anger or love.
  • burn To act or behave with destructive violence; be in a state of violent action; rage.
  • burn To be affected with a sensation of heat or burning pain, or acridity; feel excess of heat: as, the face burns; the patient burns with a fever.
  • burn To resemble fire in the effect or the sensation produced.
  • burn In certain games, to be very near a concealed object which is sought, that is, so near that one would be burned if it were fire; hence, to be nearly right in a guess.
  • n burn A hurt or injury caused by the action of fire, especially on a living body; a burnt place in any substance.
  • n burn The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking: as, they had a good burn.
  • n burn A disease in vegetables. See brand, 6.
  • n burn A clearing in the woods made by burning the trees. [U. S.] Synonyms Burn, Scald. Burns are produced by heated solids or by flames, scalds by heated fluids or vapors. See scorch, v. t.
  • n burn A rivulet; a brook.
  • n burn It occurs in various place-names, as Bannock-burn, Blackburn, etc.
  • burn To burnish; brighten; make gay or cheerful.
  • n burn A burden for one person.
  • burn To vulcanize (india-rubber) by mixing it with sulphur or metallic sulphids and heating to a properly determined temperature.
  • burn To alter by means of heat, as a gem. Thus yellow topaz may be burned to pink, smoky quartz to brown and yellow (so-called Spanish topaz), chalcedony to carnelian, yellow or bluish zircon to the colorless variety, etc.
  • burn To injure (plants) as if by scorching: said of the action of strong fertilizers.
  • burn To become acidified as the effect of an excess of green herbage which has been plowed under: said of a soil.
  • n burn In the tobacco trade: The quality of leaf considered with reference to the completeness or incompleteness of its reduction to ash in being smoked.
  • n burn A damage sometimes suffered by tobacco in the process of curing (drying), due to excessive moisture in the air. Specifically termed house-burn when it takes place indoors, and pole-burn when the leaves are dried hanging on poles.
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• Interesting fact: The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
• • n Burn burn a small stream or brook: a spring or fountain.
  • v.t Burn burn to consume or injure by fire
  • v.i Burn to be on fire: to feel excess of heat: to be inflamed with passion:—pa.p. burned or burnt
  • n Burn a hurt or mark caused by fire
  • adj Burn very hot: scorching: ardent: excessive
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• Viktor E. Frankl

  

  “What is to give light must endure the burning.”
• Mother Teresa

  

  “To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
• Heinrich Heine

  

  “Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.”
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

  “I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.”
• Dylan Thomas

  

  “Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.”

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