burn

Meaning

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).

Concepts

burn

scorch

scald

roast

blaze

light

singe

sear

flame

catch fire

cook

char

ignite

glow

bake

set on fire

be on fire

kindle

sting

on fire

set fire to

fire

incinerate

sunburn

consume

cauterize

burn up

hot

combust

burn down

make a fire

brand

parch

hurt

grill

heat

tan

cauterise

burn off

bite

cause pain

brook

burning

flame up

flush

be burned

smoke

flare

shine

burn mark

light up

boil

burned

creek

stream

broil

destroy by fire

torch

inflame

feel hot

be in flames

be hot

cut

suntan

smart

cremate

become burnt

set afire

heat up

go red

beck

build a fire

blister

embrown

make hot

warm

be warm

consume with fire

wither

have a fever

point

prick

tingle

set ablaze

lighted

burn incense

set alight

burnt

overcook

fry

strike out

reduce to ashes

in flames

roasted

irritate

ache

burst into flame

burn to a crisp

set aflame

be very hot

be consumed

sunburnt

sparkle

be destroyed by fire

annihilate

destroy

reduce

be heated

be roasted

be sunburnt

fade

glow red

get fired up

be lighted

be lit

throw on the fire

be ablaze

smoulder

blaze down on

to be caustic

burning - mark

rage

coal

pain

sizzle

heat thoroughly

4

anger

dry up

cinder

frizzle

grieve

blast

blow up

be burning

be burnt

burning sensation

hate

itch

barbecue

seduce

toast

indicate

mark

pierce

puncture

wound

calcine

kiln

heat injury

scorching

cauma

causis

fire burn

burning-out

sweat

int.

slight

squander

barbeque

ruin

distress

make sad

sadden

suffer

sufferings

of fire

light a fire

give off smoke

gleam

start

be angry

set fire

prickle

abrade

degrade

drain

drop

eat

eat away

eat up

expend

fool away

fret

get through

lay out

rub down

scuff

spend

use up

wear

wear away

wear down

wear off

wipe out

tawniness

blow

die

tingling

put out

fan

fritter away

retire

tag

urticate

capture

document

file

keep

save

tape

write

streamlet

alight

on

shock

lick

stab

shine brightly

warm up

turn red

burn out

be in flame

blaze with

be consume with

ripen

light fire

refine

combustion

dry

flare up

bake in ashes

burns

consumed by fire

illuminate

dazzling

very hot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɜːn/

Etymology

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.