To cause to be consumed by fire. Example: He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
To be consumed by fire, or in flames. Example: He watched the house burn.
To overheat so as to make unusable. Example: He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
To become overheated to the point of being unusable. Example: The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat. Example: to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage. Example: She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
To cauterize.
To sunburn. Example: She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does. Example: to burn the mouth with pepper
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. Example: The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize. Example: A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat. Example: Copper burns in chlorine.
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. Example: We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
To betray. Example: The informant burned him.
To insult or defeat. Example: I just burned you again.
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources. Example: The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. Example: You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
To discard.
To shoot someone with a firearm.
Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
(of food) Carbonised. Example: The toast was too burnt to eat.
(of a person) Having a sunburn.
(of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.
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