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burn ubrn brun rbun urbn rubn bunr ubnr bnur nbur unbr nubr brnu rbnu bnru nbru rnbu nrbu urnb runb unrb nurb rnub nrub

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Definitions and meaning of burn

burn

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝn/, enPR: bûrn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɜːn/, enPR: bûn
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
• Homophone: Bern

Etymology 1

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.

See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”)). More at brew.

Noun

burn (countable and uncountable, plural burns)

2. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

3. A sensation resembling such an injury.

4. The act of burning something with fire.
6. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
7. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
8. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

9. (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
10. (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
11. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

    They have a good burn.

12. (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
13. (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
14. A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek.

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Verb

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

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, damage, 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.
    • a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “What menythe thys” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 12 verso:

      In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake
      For hete & cold I burne & ſhake
      For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake
      What menys thys

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, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.

15. (transitive, slang) To betray.

16. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.

17. (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

18. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
19. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
20. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
21. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
22. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
23. (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
24. (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
25. (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
26. (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.

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• combust

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Etymology 2

From Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brunō.

Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.

Noun

burn (plural burns)

2. (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.

Derived terms

• Burn Bridge (debatable)
• Burnmouth
• Burnside

Related terms

• bourn

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “burn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Nyunga

Noun

burn

1. wood

References

• 1886, C. F. Armstrong (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent

Scots

Etymology

Middle English bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”).

Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”).

Noun

burn (plural burns)

1. A small river.

References

“burn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.