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burn

Definitions


[bəːn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a fire) produce flames and heat while consuming a material such as coal or wood
(e.g: a fire burned and crackled cheerfully in the grate)

- destroy, damage, or injure by heat or fire
(e.g: he burned all the letters)

- produce (a CD or DVD) by copying from an original or master copy

- drive or move very fast
(e.g: he burned past us like a maniac)

- insult (someone) in a particularly cutting way
(e.g: Mark burns him by saying he hasn't even heard of the guy's agency)


Phrases:
- be burned at the stake
- burn a hole in someone's pocket
- burn one's bridges
- burn the candle at both ends
- burn the midnight oil
- go for the burn
- have something to burn
- slow burn

Origin:
Old English birnan ‘be on fire’ and bærnan ‘consume by fire’, both from the same Germanic base; related to German brennen


[bəːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or flame
(e.g: he was treated in hospital for burns to his hands)

- consumption of a type of fuel as an energy source
(e.g: natural gas produces the cleanest burn of the lot)

- an act of clearing of vegetation by burning

- a cigarette


Phrases:
- be burned at the stake
- burn a hole in someone's pocket
- burn one's bridges
- burn the candle at both ends
- burn the midnight oil
- go for the burn
- have something to burn
- slow burn

Origin:
Old English birnan ‘be on fire’ and bærnan ‘consume by fire’, both from the same Germanic base; related to German brennen


[bəːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small stream
(e.g: there is a burn running through the flower beds)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English burna, burn(e), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bron and German Brunnen ‘well’




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