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Burning

adjective

1.

Of immediate import.

noun

1.

The act of burning something. Synonym: combustion.

2.

Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. Synonym: burn.

3.

A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light. Synonym: combustion.

4.

Execution by electricity. Synonym: electrocution.

5.

Execution by fire. Synonym: burning at the stake.

6.

A form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin.

Burn

verb

(past & past part. burned or burnt; pres. part. burning)

1.

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn down, fire.

2.

Shine intensely, as if with heat. Synonym: glow. "The candles were burning"

3.

Undergo combustion. Synonym: combust.

4.

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. Synonyms: bite, sting.

5.

Cause to burn or combust. Synonym: combust. "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

6.

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion. "He was burning to try out his new skies"

7.

Cause to undergo combustion. Synonym: incinerate. "The car burns only Diesel oil"

8.

Burn at the stake.

9.

Spend (significant amounts of money).

10.

Feel hot or painful.

11.

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize.

12.

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. Synonym: sunburn.

13.

Create by duplicating data. Synonym: cut. "Burn a CD"

14.

Use up (energy). Synonyms: burn off, burn up.

15.

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation.

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"Burning" Quotes from Famous Books

... these views upon our commanders for the last two years. You are almost the only one who has properly applied them. I do not approve of General Hunter's course in burning private homes or uselessly destroying private property. That is barbarous. But I approve of taking or destroying whatever may serve as supplies to us ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... concentrating my abilities on the serving out of stamps and the issuing of postal orders. Besides which, I get no time for study. Evening before last, at the Finsbury Town Hall, I came as near to finding my memory fail as ever I've been. I'm burning ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

... the Kremlin. I had not yet got a pass to the Kremlin, so she arranged to meet me and get a pass for me from the Commandant. I walked through the snow to the white gate at the end of the bridge which leads over the garden up a steep incline to the Kremlin. Here a fire of logs was burning, and three soldiers were sitting around it. Madame Radek was waiting for me, warming her hands at the fire, and we went together into the ...

— Russia in 1919 • Arthur Ransome

... emissions and open-air burning; acid rain; water pollution from increased use of agricultural fertilizers; loss ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... when Lycas, in a towering rage because his preserves had been secretly invaded, demanded that I indemnify him in her stead. She was an old flame of his, so he broached the subject of a mutual exchange of favors. Burning with lust, he pressed his suit, but Tryphaena possessed my heart, and I said Lycas nay. By refusal, however, he was only made more ardent, followed me everywhere, entered my room at night, and, after his entreaties ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

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