VERB
  • Definition - To cause to be consumed by fire.
  • Example - He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
  • Definition - To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
  • Example - He watched the house burn.
  • Definition - To overheat so as to make unusable.
  • Example - He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
  • Definition - To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
  • Example - The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
  • Definition - To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
  • Example - to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block
  • Definition - 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.
  • Definition - To cauterize.
  • Example - She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
  • Definition - To sunburn.
  • Example - She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
  • Definition - 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
  • Definition - To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
  • Example - The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.
  • Definition - 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
  • Definition - To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
  • Example - Copper burns in chlorine.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Definition - To betray.
  • Example - The informant burned him.
  • Definition - To insult or defeat.
  • Example - I just burned you again.
  • Definition - To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
  • Example - The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
  • Definition - In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - To accidentally touch a moving stone.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - To discard.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - To shoot someone with a firearm.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
NOUN
  • Definition - The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • Example - You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
  • Definition - A fire.
  • Example - The burnings continued all day.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • Example - the burning sun
  • Definition - Feeling very hot.
  • Example - burning skin
  • Definition - Feeling great passion.
  • Example - her burning heart
  • Definition - Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • Example - burning zeal
  • Definition - Being keenly discussed.
  • Example - a burning question; a burning issue
Words in your word
7 Letter Words
burning 10
5 Letter Words
bring 8 brung 8 bruin 7 burin 7 ruing 6 unrig 6 inrun 5 inurn 5
4 Letter Words
bing 7 brig 7 bung 7 burg 7 grub 7 brin 6 bunn 6 burn 6 girn 5 grin 5 ring 5 rung 5 ruin 4
3 Letter Words
big 6 bug 6 gib 6 bin 5 bun 5 bur 5 nib 5 nub 5 rib 5 rub 5 urb 5 gin 4 gnu 4 gun 4 nug 4 rig 4 rug 4 inn 3 nun 3 rin 3 run 3 uni 3 urn 3
2 Letter Words
bi 4 gi 3 in 2 nu 2 un 2
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