burn
noun
- 1
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
“She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.”
- 2
A sensation resembling such an injury.
“chili burn from eating hot peppers”
- 3
The act of burning something with fire.
“They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.”
- 4
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- 5
An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- 6
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
Tobacco.
- 8
The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- 9
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
“They have a good burn.”
- 10
A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
- 1
To cause to be consumed by fire.
“He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.”
- 2
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
“He watched the house burn.”
- 3
To overheat so as to make unusable.
“He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.”
- 4
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
“The grill was too hot and the steak burned.”
- 5
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
“to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block”
- 6
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.”
- 7
To cauterize.
- 8
To sunburn.
“She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.”
- 9
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”
- 10
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
“The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.”
- 11
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”
- 12
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
“Copper burns in chlorine.”
- 13
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.”
- 14
To betray.
“The informant burned him.”
- 15
To insult or defeat.
“I just burned you again.”
- 16
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
“The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.”
- 17
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
“You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!”
- 18
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- 19
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- 20
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- 21
(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
- 22
To discard.
- 23
To shoot someone with a firearm.
noun
- 1
A stream.
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