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burn

If something has been cooked too much, then it is burned. Mother burned the pie when she forgot that it was cooking in the oven. When part of your body is injured because of the heat, then it has been burned. If you touch a hot pan of water, you can burn yourself. Things on fire are burning. The house next door is burning. A person is burned if someone else successfully insults him.

burn

A burn is an injury caused when you burn yourself. The burn on my arm hurts.

burn

(= fire) destroy by fire They burned the house and his diaries (= glow) shine intensely, as if with heat The coals were glowing in the dark The candles were burning undergo combustion Maple wood burns well (= sting) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort The sun burned his face feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion She was burning with anger He was burning to try out his new skies (= combust) cause to burn or combust The sun burned off the fog We combust coal and other fossil fuels cause to undergo combustion burn garbage The car burns only Diesel oil pain that feels hot as if it were on fire feel hot or painful My eyes are burning spend (significant amounts of money) He has money to burn burn at the stake Witches were burned in Salem (= sunburn) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun (= cauterize) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent The surgeon cauterized the wart (= tan) a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation burn with heat, fire, or radiation The iron burnt a hole in my dress a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) damage inflicted by fire (= cut) create by duplicating data cut a disk burn a CD (= burn off) use up (energy) burn off calories through vigorous exercise

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Conjugation burn conjugation

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burn · verb

Examples burn examples

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Simple sentences

Where they burn books, they will eventually burn people.
Be careful not to burn yourself.
Burn the witch!
When you finish reading this letter, burn it.
Burn all this stuff.
Plastic does not burn easily.
With respect to these letters, I think the best thing is to burn them.
This wood won't burn.
You must see to it that the cakes do not burn.
He's got money to burn.
I'll burn the midnight oil tonight.
I have to burn the midnight oil tonight.
You cannot burn anything without oxygen.
If we burn fuels such as coal, oil and gas, they give off various gases.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.
Woods burn easily.
My cheeks burn.
Burn with desire.
I got blisters from the burn.
My ears burn.
She got a slight burn on her hand while cooking.
You may as well burn your money as spend it on lottery tickets.

Movie subtitles

But I didn't steal the food, and I didn't burn down the shed.
I didn't want to burn it down.
Should I burn down (the house and her)?
Let's burn sage.
Hey, burn out, wake up.
Just don't burn the place down.
Not only. do you burn down our restaurant. you get caught.
The way I see it, you either burn it down or you build it up!
Sweet burn.
We no longer burn our old and poor.
Greetings from Soviet Russia. Burn all the New York magazines and hang a portrait of Lenin in my office.
Don't let them burn.
Are you trying to burn it down, eh?
Burn the mill!
Burn that damn village!
Burn their crops!
If I'm lying, may my guts rot and may I burn in Hell.
They wage wars on us, cut our settlers' throats, burn our farms, dream of throwing us in the sea.
Easy, easy. The kiss is hot you could burn your moustache.
Burn all the New York magazines and hang a portrait of Lenin in my office.
Young man, you can't burn the candle at both ends.
When a man dies they always burn his wife or daughter with him!
Do you want the reel to burn?
Don't burn that toast, Annie.
You're asking to burn these people?
Burn my clothes, if it isn't Romeo, our financial backer.
Aren't you afraid you'll burn out a tonsil?
Me, burn a tonsil!
I'd Iike to burn some moxa at the threshold to cure Hisamatsu of the chronic disease that makes her flap her beautiful kimono sleeves and invite men in.

News and current affairs

One thing is clear: if we are not to be totally reckless with our planet's climate, we cannot burn all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we have already located.
It simply means that when Great Britain installs a wind turbine, it becomes cheaper to burn coal in Portugal or Poland.
Deprived pensioners burn old books to keep warm, because they are cheaper than coal, they ride on heated buses all day, and a third leave part of their homes cold.
Should we burn our existing textbooks and rewrite them from scratch?
Yet partisan war will burn, like a fire underground.
No one should expect that a single crisis can burn away all of a country's economic weeds, nor that the New Economy is a magic bullet for risk-free growth.
Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.
Stock values in the fossil-fuel industry - which are based on the assumption that companies will be able to extract and burn all known reserves - will plummet.
Almost three billion people still burn dung, twigs, and other traditional fuels indoors to cook and keep warm, generating noxious fumes that kill an estimated two million people each year, mostly women and children.
But is it really a wise and ethically acceptable strategy to burn food rather than eat it?
The first set of issues includes slow-burn problems involving externalities, the leading example being environmental degradation.
And yet, remarkably, even as most of the region began to burn, oil prices collapsed.
But now, in the name of saving the planet from climate change, environmentalists are proposing an immense global campaign to cut down and burn trees and scrubs in order to reduce fossil-fuel use.
But we are about to diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive, and waste hundreds of billions of dollars - all while cutting down trees to burn them and potentially increasing CO2 emissions.
When we burn wood, we reverse the process, unraveling that order and producing energy.
Global deposits of methane clathrate contain more than twice the amount of energy of all known fossil fuels, and it can burn cleanly.
Given lack of storage capacity, this could quickly lower prices and burn speculators.
Energy poverty is even more acute for the three billion people - almost half of the world's population - who burn dung, cardboard, and twigs indoors to cook and keep warm.
Environmental protection is also at issue. Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.
In both cases, efforts were made to burn off the oil from the ocean's surface.
It would be unfortunate if China and India were to impoverish themselves by ceasing to burn coal, only to have the resulting decrease of snowfall over Greenland and Antarctica cause sea levels to rise faster.
Electric utilities still largely burn fossil fuels and sell the power to homes and businesses.
To build on this, consumers and markets also need to send signals to companies that directly or indirectly support slash-and-burn farming.
Small farmers need options other than slash-and-burn farming to boost their meager incomes.
But in a sunny corner of southern France, a global megaproject is coming together that will, for the first time, test the technology on an industrial scale, creating the first controlled fusion burn.
The ITER experiment, when it starts up in the early 2020s, will embody those advances, achieving the long-awaited fusion burn - and place us just one step away from the ultimate goal of getting fusion power on the grid in an affordable manner.
We must not burn interfaith bridges.
And there is no end to this crash-and-burn surveillance strategy, owing to the nature of the information that is caught in the net.
When you are poor, you are more likely to slash and burn rain forest or fish atop coral reefs with dynamite.

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