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burn

English

  1. 🔊 damage inflicted by fire
  2. 🔊 a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
  3. 🔊 an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
  4. 🔊 pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
  5. 🔊 a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
  6. 🔊 damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
    “The iron burnt a hole in my dress”
  7. 🔊 undergo combustion
    “Maple wood burns well”
  8. 🔊 cause to undergo combustion
    “burn garbage”
  9. 🔊 destroy by fire
    “They burned the house and his diaries”
  10. 🔊 feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
    “She was burning with anger”
  11. 🔊 feel hot or painful
    “My eyes are burning”
  12. 🔊 spend (significant amounts of money)
    “He has money to burn”
  13. 🔊 execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
    “Witches were burned in Salem”
  14. 🔊 cause to burn or combust
    “The sun burned off the fog”
  15. 🔊 shine intensely, as if with heat
    “The coals were glowing in the dark”
  16. 🔊 get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
  17. 🔊 use up (energy)
    “burn off calories through vigorous exercise”
  18. 🔊 create by duplicating data
    “cut a disk”
  19. 🔊 burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
    “The surgeon cauterized the wart”
  20. 🔊 cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
    “The sun burned his face”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 quemadura burn
  2. 🔊 abrasar to burn
  3. 🔊 adurir to burn
  4. 🔊 quemar to burn
  5. 🔊 flagrar to burn, to blaze
  6. 🔊 flamear to burn, to blaze, to flame
  7. 🔊 encender to burn, have a burning sensation
  8. 🔊 arder to burn, to sting, to smart (to hurt, be in pain)
  9. 🔊 arder to burn, blaze (to be consumed by fire or in flames)
  10. 🔊 arder to burn, seethe (to be in an agitated or angry mental state)

Similar words

burn mark tan suntan sunburn burning sunburn cauterize cauterise combust incinerate fire burn down burn off burn up cut bite sting combust glow earth insertion lem lm abrade abrasion