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burning

/bɜːnɪŋ/ /bɝnɪŋ/

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verb

To cause to be consumed by fire.

Examples :

"He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."

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To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

Examples :

"He watched the house burn."

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To overheat so as to make unusable.

Examples :

"He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."

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To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

Examples :

"The grill was too hot and the steak burned."

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To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

Examples :

"to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block"

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To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

Examples :

"She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."

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Examples :

"The doctor burned the small cut on her finger to prevent infection. "

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Examples :

"She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."

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To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

Examples :

"to burn the mouth with pepper"

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To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

Examples :

"My cheeks were burning with embarrassment when I forgot my lines in the school play. "

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To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

Examples :

"A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen"

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To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

Examples :

"Copper burns in chlorine."

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To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

Examples :

"We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins."

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Examples :

"The informant burned him."

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To insult or defeat.

Examples :

"I just burned you again."

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To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

Examples :

"The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."

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In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

Examples :

"The children were burning the bushes near the hidden treasure. "

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To accidentally touch a moving stone.

Examples :

"The child accidentally burned himself on the spinning stone at the park. "

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In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

Examples :

"The player burning the cards swapped the two of clubs and the three of diamonds for a pair of aces. "

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To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

Examples :

"The photographer burned the highlights in the family photo to make the sky brighter. "

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(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

Examples :

"The sun's hydrogen is constantly burning into helium. "

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verb

Examples :

"The student burned the old notes, discarding them to make room for new ones. "

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To shoot someone with a firearm.

Examples :

"The security guard was trained to burn intruders. "

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noun

The act by which something burns or is burned.

Examples :

"The burning of the old papers was a messy but necessary part of the cleanup. "

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noun

Examples :

"The burnings continued all day."

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adjective

So hot as to seem to burn (something).

Examples :

"the burning sun"

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Feeling very hot.

Examples :

"burning skin"

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Feeling great passion.

Examples :

"her burning heart"

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adjective

Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.

Examples :

"burning zeal"

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adjective

Being keenly discussed.

Examples :

"a burning question; a burning issue"

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