burn

burn is a 4-letter English word with 36 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
2. transitive verb. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. transitive verb. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. transitive verb. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. transitive verb. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
6. transitive verb. To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
7. transitive verb. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
8. intransitive verb. To be of fire; to flame.
9. intransitive verb. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
10. intransitive verb. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
11. intransitive verb. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
12. intransitive verb. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
13. noun. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
14. noun. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
15. noun. A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
16. noun. A small stream.
17. noun. damage inflicted by fire
18. noun. a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
19. noun. an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
20. noun. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun

    Synonyms: sunburn, suntan, tan

21. noun. pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

    Synonyms: burning

22. verb. get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

    Synonyms: sunburn

23. verb. burn with heat, fire, or radiation

    "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"

24. verb. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

    "The surgeon cauterized the wart"

    Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize

25. verb. undergo combustion

    "Maple wood burns well"

    Synonyms: combust

26. verb. cause to undergo combustion

    "burn garbage"

    "The car burns only Diesel oil"

    Synonyms: incinerate

27. verb. destroy by fire

    "They burned the house and his diaries"

    Synonyms: fire

28. verb. use up (energy)

    "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"

29. verb. create by duplicating data

    "cut a disk"

    "burn a CD"

    Synonyms: cut

30. verb. feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion

    "She was burning with anger"

    "He was burning to try out his new skies"

31. verb. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

    "The sun burned his face"

    Synonyms: bite, sting

32. verb. feel hot or painful

    "My eyes are burning"

33. verb. spend (significant amounts of money)

    "He has money to burn"

34. verb. burn at the stake

    "Witches were burned in Salem"

35. verb. cause to burn or combust

    "The sun burned off the fog"

    "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

    Synonyms: combust

36. verb. shine intensely, as if with heat

    "The coals were glowing in the dark"

    "The candles were burning"

    Synonyms: glow

Synonyms

sunburn, suntan, tan, burning, cauterise, cauterize, combust, incinerate, fire, cut, bite, sting, glow

Common word forms

burns, burned, burner, burning, burnous, burnable

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