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Synonyms for BURN
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Princeton's WordNet
burn, burning(noun)
pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
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burn mark, tan, burn, combustion, electrocution, burning at the stake, sunburn, suntan, burningtan, suntan, sunburn, burn(noun)
a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
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burning, topaz, erythema solare, burn, tangent, burn mark, sunburn, suntan, tanburn(noun)
an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
burn, burn mark(noun)
a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
burn(verb)
damage inflicted by fire
burn, fire, burn down(verb)
destroy by fire
"They burned the house and his diaries"
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kindle, evoke, bite, sack, give the axe, burn, dismiss, go off, go up, enkindle, give the sack, cut, glow, elicit, burn up, terminate, fire, combust, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, sting, send away, raise, sunburn, provoke, can, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, discharge, burn off, fuel, force out, cauteriseburn, glow(verb)
shine intensely, as if with heat
"The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"
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shine, beam, burn up, radiate, burn, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, burn off, bite, cauterize, glow, cauterise, fireburn, combust(verb)
undergo combustion
"Maple wood burns well"
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throw a fit, fly off the handle, catch fire, take fire, ignite, flip one's wig, hit the roof, burn, burn up, blow up, lose one's temper, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, blow a fuse, combust, erupt, hit the ceiling, burn down, conflagrate, go ballistic, burn off, bite, cauterize, blow one's stack, have kittens, flip one's lid, glow, cauterise, fire, have a fitbite, sting, burn(verb)
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
"The sun burned his face"
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stick, burn down, seize with teeth, burn, prick, burn up, cut, twinge, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn off, bite, cauterize, glow, cauterise, fireburn, combust(verb)
cause to burn or combust
"The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
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throw a fit, fly off the handle, catch fire, take fire, ignite, flip one's wig, hit the roof, burn, burn up, blow up, lose one's temper, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, blow a fuse, combust, erupt, hit the ceiling, burn down, conflagrate, go ballistic, burn off, bite, cauterize, blow one's stack, have kittens, flip one's lid, glow, cauterise, fire, have a fitburn(verb)
feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
"She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, biteburn, incinerate(verb)
cause to undergo combustion
"burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, burn, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, biteburn(verb)
burn at the stake
"Witches were burned in Salem"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, biteburn(verb)
spend (significant amounts of money)
"He has money to burn"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, biteburn(verb)
feel hot or painful
"My eyes are burning"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bitecauterize, cauterise, burn(verb)
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
"The surgeon cauterized the wart"
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cauterize, burn up, burn down, burn off, sting, fire, combust, burn, cut, sunburn, incinerate, bite, glow, cauterise, calloussunburn, burn(verb)
get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, burn, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bitecut, burn(verb)
create by duplicating data
"cut a disk"; "burn a CD"
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veer, bring down, snub, bite, turn off, edit out, cut, burn up, burn, rationalize, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, slue, glow, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, combust, shorten, cut off, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, sting, contract, foreshorten, dilute, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, tailor, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, turn out, fire, disregard, burn off, issue, cauterise, cut back, abbreviate, trend, sunburnburn off, burn, burn up(verb)
use up (energy)
"burn off calories through vigorous exercise"
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flare, go up, burn up, burn, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, flame up, burn off, bite, cauterize, blaze up, glow, cauterise, fireburn(verb)
burn with heat, fire, or radiation
"The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
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sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite
English Synonyms and Antonyms
burn
To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.
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blaze, brand, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singeAntonyms:
cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subduePreposition:
To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
burn(v. a.)
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consume with fire, reduce to ashesburn(v. a.)
burn(v. a.)
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injure by fire or heatburn(v. a.)
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shrivel, cause to witherburn(v. n.)
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flame, be on fireburn(v. n.)
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glow, warm, be excitedburn(n.)
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[Scottish.] brook, rivulet, streamlet, runnel, rivulet, rill, small stream
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How to use BURN in a sentence?
In the more populated areas you might have a greater effect of the army extinguishing fires and putting some sense into people who would just burn the land to clear it with no care whether this fire will spread.
We are increasingly seeing what we call multiple-trauma injuries because of the bombs and the heavy weapons they are using. There are large burn cases, lots of amputations, and internal traumas.
He was instantly more relaxed -- not as guarded, it was much easier to examine his fingers and treat the burn.
On paper, it is simple to calculate the amount of CO2 emissions a ton of coal will produce and then to calculate the number of trees it takes to consume the CO2, the problem with that theory is that you have to train the CO2 molecules to go to those trees. . . maybe we only burn coal when the wind is blowing in that direction ? And, oh yes, the trees, he said. Are these mature, 40-foot oak trees they are planting, or more likely 16-inch pine seedlings ? Do they realize how long it will take to get a mature forest capable of consuming the CO2 ?
I watched a gas station on fire, and I thought, boy, that place looks familiar, soon, the realization hit me. As I was protecting my parents' shopping mall, I was watching my own gas station burn down on TV.
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