burning

B1
Pronunciation
/bɜːnɪŋ/
/bɝnɪŋ/
Noun
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

The act by which something burns or is burned.

2 Definition

A fire.

Example Sentences
  • The burnings continued all day.
Verb
23 definition(s)
1 Definition

To cause to be consumed by fire.

Example Sentences
  • He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
2 Definition

To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

Example Sentences
  • He watched the house burn.
3 Definition

To overheat so as to make unusable.

Example Sentences
  • He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
4 Definition

To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

Example Sentences
  • The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
5 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block
6 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
7 Definition

To cauterize.

8 Definition

To sunburn.

Example Sentences
  • She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
9 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to burn the mouth with pepper
10 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.
11 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen
12 Definition

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

Example Sentences
  • Copper burns in chlorine.
13 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
14 Definition

To betray.

Example Sentences
  • The informant burned him.
15 Definition

To insult or defeat.

Example Sentences
  • I just burned you again.
16 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
17 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
18 Definition

To accidentally touch a moving stone.

19 Definition

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

20 Definition

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

21 Definition

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

22 Definition

To discard.

23 Definition

To shoot someone with a firearm.

Adjective
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

So hot as to seem to burn (something).

Example Sentences
  • the burning sun
2 Definition

Feeling very hot.

Example Sentences
  • burning skin
3 Definition

Feeling great passion.

Example Sentences
  • her burning heart
4 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • burning zeal
5 Definition

Being keenly discussed.

Example Sentences
  • a burning question; a burning issue