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1.verbTo cause to be consumed by fire."He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."
2.verbTo be consumed by fire, or in flames."He watched the house burn."
3.verbTo overheat so as to make unusable."He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."
4.verbTo become overheated to the point of being unusable."The grill was too hot and the steak burned."
5.verbTo make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat."to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block"
6.verbTo 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.verbTo cauterize.
8.verbTo sunburn."She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."
9.verbTo 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.verbTo be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment."The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame."
11.verbTo 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.verbTo combine energetically, with evolution of heat."Copper burns in chlorine."
13.verbTo 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.verbTo betray."The informant burned him."
15.verbTo insult or defeat."I just burned you again."
16.verbTo waste (time); to waste money or other resources."The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."
17.verbIn certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought."You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!"
18.verbTo accidentally touch a moving stone.
19.verbIn pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
20.verbTo increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
21.verb(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
22.verbTo discard.
23.verbTo shoot someone with a firearm.
24.nounThe act by which something burns or is burned.
25.nounA fire."The burnings continued all day."
26.adjectiveSo hot as to seem to burn (something)."the burning sun"
27.adjectiveFeeling very hot."burning skin"
28.adjectiveFeeling great passion."her burning heart"
29.adjectiveConsuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful."burning zeal"
30.adjectiveBeing keenly discussed."a burning question; a burning issue"