burn
/bɜːn/
noun
Meaning
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
"She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire."
A sensation resembling such an injury.
"chili burn from eating hot peppers"
The act of burning something with fire.
"They're doing a controlled burn of the fields."
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
"One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!"
Tobacco.
The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
"They have a good burn."
A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
Meaning
To cause to be consumed by fire.
"He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
"He watched the house burn."
To overheat so as to make unusable.
"He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
"The grill was too hot and the steak burned."
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
"to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block"
To 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."
To cauterize.
To sunburn.
"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.
"to burn the mouth with pepper"
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
"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.
"A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen"
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
"Copper burns in chlorine."
To 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."
To betray.
"The informant burned him."
To insult or defeat.
"I just burned you again."
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
"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.
"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.