burn

(countable, uncountable)A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

He burnt his hand in the fire.

(countable, uncountable)A sensation resembling such an injury.

chili burn from eating hot peppers

(countable, uncountable)The act of burning something with fire.

They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.

(countable, slang, uncountable)An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

(countable, slang, uncountable)An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).

(countable, uncountable)Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

(UK, slang, uncountable)(uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.

(countable, uncountable)(computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

(countable, uncountable)The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

They have a good burn.

(uncountable)A disease in vegetables; brand.

(countable, uncountable)(aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.

(Northern England, Scotland)A large stream.

(transitive)To cause to be consumed by fire.

He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

Đồng nghĩa: burn, cinder, forsweal, incinerate, singe, torch, burn, burn away, burn down, burn up, burn to a crisp, char up, cinder, cremate, forburn, forsweal, incinerate, scathe, torch

(intransitive)To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

He watched the house burn.

Đồng nghĩa: combust, go up

(transitive)To overheat so as to make unusable.

He burned the toast.    The blacksmith burned the steel.

(intransitive)To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

(transitive)To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

to burn a hole;    to burn letters into a block

(intransitive)To give off light; to be lit up.

(transitive)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.

Đồng nghĩa: scathe, vitriolize

(transitive)(transitive, surgery) To cauterize.

(ambitransitive)To sunburn.

She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

(transitive)To consume, damage, 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

(intransitive)To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

The child’s forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.

In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake / For hete & cold I burne & ſhake / For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake / What menys thys

(transitive)(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

to burn iron in oxygen

A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.