burn

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
3. The act of burning something with fire.
4. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
7. (slang) Tobacco.
8. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
9. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
10. A disease in vegetables; brand.
11. The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
12. A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek.

Verb

1. To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. To overheat so as to make unusable.
4. To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
5. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
7. To cauterize.
8. To sunburn.
9. To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
10. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
11. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
12. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
13. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
14. To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
15. (slang) To betray.
16. (slang) To insult or defeat.
17. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
18. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
19. To accidentally touch a moving stone.
20. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
21. To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
22. To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
23. (slang) To discard.
24. (slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
25. To compromise (an agent's cover story).
26. To blackmail.
27. (slang) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

Sinònims

scorch

scald

roast

blaze

light

singe

sear

catch fire

flame

cook

🧑‍🍳

char

ignite

set on fire

bake

glow

be on fire

on fire

kindle

sting

set fire to

fire

🔥

consume

incinerate

sunburn

burn up

cauterize

hot

🥵

combust

burn down

make a fire

parch

brand

hurt

heat

bite

burn off

cause pain

tan

cauterise

grill

burned

burn mark

brook

boil

light up

flush

burning

smoke

shine

be burned

flame up

flare

broil

set afire

torch

creek

heat up

smart

inflame

become burnt

stream

be in flames

go red

feel hot

cut

destroy by fire

be hot

cremate

suntan

strike out

tingle

irritate

warm

☀️

lighted

wither

overcook

burnt

point

be warm

build a fire

burn incense

prick

burst into flame

embrown

have a fever

in flames

make hot

reduce to ashes

set ablaze

roasted

blister

ache

beck

set alight

fry

consume with fire

write

✍️

be consumed

be heated

be very hot

burn to a crisp

consumed by fire

light a fire

light fire

of fire

set fire

make sad

shine brightly

very hot

be roasted

be sunburnt

glow red

blaze down on

be lit

be lighted

get fired up

burning sensation

throw on the fire

burns

hate

😡

pain

be burnt

give off smoke

be destroyed by fire

burning - mark

to be caustic

blaze with

be burning

4

heat thoroughly

set aflame

burning-out

heat injury

int.

cauma

bake in ashes

causis

fire burn

be in flame

abrade

be consume with

alight

anger

💢

annihilate

barbecue

barbeque

be angry

blast

blow

blow up

burn out

calcine

capture

cinder

coal

combustion

dazzling

degrade

destroy

die

💀

distress

document

drain

drop

dry

dry up

eat

🍽️

eat away

eat up

expend

fade

fan

file

flare up

fool away

fret

fritter away

frizzle

get through

gleam

grieve

illuminate

indicate

itch

keep

kiln

lay out

lick

mark

on

🔛

pierce

prickle

puncture

put out

rage

😡

reduce

refine

retire

ripen

rub down

ruin

sadden

save

scorching

scuff

seduce

shock

⚡

sizzle

slight

smoulder

sparkle

❇️

spend

squander

stab

start

streamlet

suffer

sufferings

sunburnt

sweat

😓

tag

tape

tawniness

tingling

toast

be ablaze

turn red

urticate

use up

warm up

wear

wear away

wear down

wear off

wipe out

wound

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɜːn/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.