Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
burn (noun)British - creek
intransitive verb
1.
a) to consume fuel and give off heat, light, and gases - a small fire burns on the hearth
b) to undergo combustion , also to undergo nuclear fission or nuclear fusion
c) to contain a fire - a little stove burning in the corner
d) to give off light - shine glow a light burning in the window
2.
a) to be hot - the burning sand
b) to produce or undergo discomfort or pain - ears burning from the cold
c) to become emotionally excited or agitated as
(1) to yearn ardently - burning to tell the story
(2) to be or become very angry or disgusted - the remark made him burn
3.
a) to undergo alteration or destruction by the action of fire or heat - the house burned down the potatoes burned to a crisp
b) to die in the electric chair
4.
to force or make a way by or as if by - burning her words burned into his heart
5.
transitive verb
to suffer sunburn - she burns easily
1.
a) to cause to undergo combustion , especially to destroy by fire - burned the trash
b) to use as fuel - this furnace burns gas
c) to use up - consume burn calories
2.
a) to transform by exposure to heat or fire - burn clay to bricks
b) to produce by burning - burned a hole in his sleeve
c) to record digital data or music on (an optical disk) using a laser - burn a CD , also to record (data or music) in this way - burn songs onto a disk
3.
a) to injure or damage by or as if by exposure to fire, heat, or radiation - scorch burned his hand
b) to execute by burning - burned heretics at the stake , also - electrocute
4.
a) - irritate annoy often used with up really burns me up
b) to subject to misfortune, mistreatment, or deception - often used in passive has been burned in love
c) to beat or score on - burned the defense with a touchdown pass
1.
an act, process, instance, or result of as - burning
a) injury or damage resulting from exposure to fire, heat, caustics, electricity, or certain radiations
b) a area - burned a burn on the tabletop
c) an abrasion (as of the skin) having the appearance of a burn - rope burns
d) a burning sensation - the burn of iodine on a cut
2.
the firing of a rocket engine in flight
3.
- anger , especially increasing fury - used chiefly in the phrase slow burn
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
burn (noun)a natural body of running water smaller than a river
SYNONYMS:
beck, bourn ( bourne), brook, brooklet, burn, gill, rill, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, streamletRELATED WORDS:
arroyo, billabong [], fresh, freshet, runoff; bayou, coulee, slough ( slew slue), stream, wash; canal, channel, cut, cutoff, gut, kill, millrace, millstream, race, watercourse, waterway; affluent, branch, confluent, distributary, influent, tributary1.
to be on fire especially brightly
SYNONYMS:
blaze, combust, flame, glowRELATED WORDS:
catch, enkindle; deflagrate, fire, ignite, kindle; flare (up), light (up); flicker, gutter, waver; bake, broil, char, cook, melt, roast, scorch, swelter; smolder ( smoulder), spark, sputter; beam, brighten, radiate; beat (down), flash, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle2.
to set (something) on fire
SYNONYMS:
enkindle, fire, ignite, inflame ( enflame), kindle, light, torchRELATED WORDS:
immolate; deflagrate; char, frizzle, scorch; bake, broil, cook; ash, cremate, incinerate, kiln; set off; brighten, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, lighten, radiate; scald, scathe, sear; reignite, rekindle, relight; bank, stokeNEAR ANTONYMS:
choke, smother, suffocate; stamp (out); blacken, darken, dim, dull, obscure3.
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
SYNONYMS:
burn, foam, fume, rage, rankle, seethe, sizzle, steam, stormRELATED WORDS:
fulminate, rant, rave; smolder ( smoulder); bristle, flare (up), inflame ( enflame); chafe, fret, stew; agitate, convulse, roil, shake4.
to shine with a bright harsh light
SYNONYMS:
beat, blaze, burn, flame, flareRELATED WORDS:
beam, glow, radiate; flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle; bedazzle, blind, daze, dazzle5.
to cause to believe what is untrue
SYNONYMS:
bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on, hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, sucker, suck in, take in, trickRELATED WORDS:
kid, put on, tease; bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindleNEAR ANTONYMS:
debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask; disclose, divulge, tell, unveil; disabuse, disenchant, disillusion6.
to make complete use of
SYNONYMS:
absorb, burn, consume, devour, drain, draw down, exhaust, expend, play out, spend, use upRELATED WORDS:
abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, reduce; eat, use; bankrupt, clean (out), impoverish; cripple, debilitate, disable, enfeeble, sap, undermine, weaken; dry up, empty; blow, dissipate, fritter (away), guzzle, lavish, misspend, run through, squander, throw away, wasteNEAR ANTONYMS:
augment, enlarge, increase; bolster, enforce, fortify, reinforce ( reenforce), strengthen; rebuild, repair, restore, revive; conserve, preserve, saveto disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
SYNONYMS:
aggravate, annoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, eat, exasperate, frost, gall, get, grate, gripe, hack (off), irk, itch, nark, nettle, peeve, persecute, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, vexRELATED WORDS:
hassle, heckle; nag; inflame ( enflame), provoke, rouse; badger, bait, bullyrag ( ballyrag), devil, hagride, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease; anger, antagonize, enrage, incense, infuriate, madden, rankle, roil; agitate, discomfort, discompose, disquiet, distress, exercise, freak (out), fret, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry; affront, insult, miff, offend, outrageNEAR ANTONYMS:
appease, conciliate, mollify, oblige, pacify, placate, propitiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please, satisfy; assure, cheer, comfort, console, content, quiet, reassure, solace, soothecombust, ignite, blaze, char, scorch