burns
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/bɜːnz/
English
Definitions
noun
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.“She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.”
- A sensation resembling such an injury.“chili burn from eating hot peppers”
- The act of burning something with fire.“They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.”
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
verb
- To cause to be consumed by fire.“He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.”
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.“He watched the house burn.”
- To overheat so as to make unusable.“He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.”
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.“The grill was too hot and the steak burned.”
noun
- A stream.
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