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.

Meaning

• The act by which something burns or is burned.

• A fire.

  "The burnings continued all day."

Meaning

• So hot as to seem to burn (something).

  "the burning sun"

• Feeling very hot.

  "burning skin"

• Feeling great passion.

  "her burning heart"

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

  "burning zeal"

• Being keenly discussed.

  "a burning question; a burning issue"