Synonym: blaze, fire, flame, flare. Antonym: extinguish. Similar words: burner, burn up, burn out, burnish, burning, burnished, bury, burst. Meaning: [bɜːn] n. 1. pain that feels hot as if it were on fire 2. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun 3. an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation 4. a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) 5. damage inflicted by fire. v. 1. destroy by fire 2. shine intensely, as if with heat 3. undergo combustion 4. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort 5. cause to burn or combust 6. feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion 7. cause to undergo combustion 8. burn at the stake 9. spend (significant amounts of money) 10. feel hot or painful 11. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent 12. get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun 13. create by duplicating data 14. use up (energy) 15. burn with heat, fire, or radiation.
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61. Don't let the fire burn down.
62. Fire officials let the fire burn itself out.
63. We ran out of coal,and had to burn wood.
64. Some acids are strong enough to burn the wood.
65. Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn.
66. The wood was too green to burn.
67. The soup's hot. Don't burn your mouth.
68. Take care not to burn your fingers.
69. Her zeal will soon burn itself out.
70. Mind you don't burn those sausages.
71. Quite a lot of household chemicals can burn your skin.
72. Meteors produce streaks of light as they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
73. Burn your favourite songs or your important files onto CDs.
74. People used to burn an oil lamp to get light.
75. Do you need to burn off a few calories ?
76. It is estimated that the company will last 10 years based on the current burn rate.
77. The plane circled the airport to burn up excess fuel.
78. You'd better go and see the quack with that burn.
79. A gang has tried to burn a woman out of her home.
80. The station would burn up on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
81. He tried to burn down the school by setting fire to papers on a noticeboard.
82. This will improve your performance and help you burn off calories.
83. The satellite will fragment and burn up as it falls through the Earth's atmosphere.
84. If he carries on working so hard[Sentencedict.com],[sentencedict.com/burn.html] he'll burn himself out.
85. Scrape the dead leaves together into a pile, and then we can burn them.
86. They suffered the agony of watching him burn to death.
87. Tony fumbled the ball and I could see the coach doing a slow burn.
88. They sat by the fire, watching it slowly burn down.
89. You'll have to blow up the fire to make it burn.
90. Unless you've got money to burn, these expensive guitars are probably not for you.