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Burn
/bɜːn/
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
📖 Definitions of "Burn"
- 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.
- 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."
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