burning
Meaning of burning
verb
- 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.
- The act by which something burns or is burned.
- A fire.
The burnings continued all day.
- 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
Information about burning
- The plural form of burning is: burnings.
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Hyphenation of burning
burn-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- burning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
burning synonyms
Meaning ardent:
ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid
Meaning ablaze:
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, blazing, flaming
Meaning combustion:
Meaning burn:
Meaning electrocution:
Anagrams of burning
Words that rhyme with burning
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