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Definition burn

Etymology 1

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-Germanic *brinnan? (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renw- (compare Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”)), present stem from *b?reu-, *b?ru- (compare Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit ????? (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”)). More at brew.

Noun

burn (plural burns)

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
3. The act of burning something.
4. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
7. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco
8. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
9. A disease in vegetables; brand.

Verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt)

1. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
4. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
5. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
7. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
9. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
10. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
11. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
12. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
13. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
14. (transitive, slang) To betray.
15. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
16. (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
17. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
18. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
19. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
20. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
21. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
22. (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
23. (slang, dated) To shoot someone with a firearm.

Etymology 2

Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brun?. Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian ?????? (a?biwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.

Noun

burn (plural burns)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.

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