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noun

• A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

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

• A sensation resembling such an injury.

  Example: chili burn from eating hot peppers

• The act of burning something with fire.

  Example: They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

• An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

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

• Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

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

• Tobacco.

• The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

• The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

  Example: They have a good burn.

• A disease in vegetables; brand.

verb

• To cause to be consumed by fire.

  Example: He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

• To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

  Example: He watched the house burn.

• To overheat so as to make unusable.

  Example: He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

• To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

  Example: The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

• To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

  Example: to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block

• To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

  Example: She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

• To cauterize.

• To sunburn.

  Example: 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.

  Example: to burn the mouth with pepper

• To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

  Example: 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.

  Example: A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen

• To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

  Example: Copper burns in chlorine.

• To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

  Example: We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

• To betray.

  Example: The informant burned him.

• To insult or defeat.

  Example: I just burned you again.

• To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

  Example: 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.

  Example: 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.

noun

• A stream.