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burn
idiom
1. Burn the midnight oil To work or study very late at night.
2. To burn In great amounts: They had money to burn.
noun
1. A burned place or area: a cigarette burn in the tablecloth.
2. A sensation of intense heat or stinging pain: a chili burn on the tongue; the burn of alcohol on an open wound.
3. A sunburn or windburn.
4. A swindle.
5. Aerospace A firing of a rocket.
phrasal-verb
1. Burn in To darken part of (a photograph print) by exposing unmasked areas.
2. Burn out To cause (a property owner or a resident) to have to evacuate the premises because of fire: The shopkeeper was burned out by arsonists.
3. Burn out To make or become exhausted, especially as a result of long-term stress: "Hours are long, stress is high, and many recruits drop out or burn out” ( Robert J. Samuelson).
4. Burn out To stop burning from lack of fuel.
5. Burn out To wear out or make or become inoperative as a result of heat or friction: The short circuit burned out the fuse.
verb
1. To consume fuel and give off heat, light, and gases.
2. To undergo combustion.
3. To undergo nuclear fission or nuclear fusion.
4. To contain a fire.
5. To give off light.
verb-intransitive
1. Physics To undergo nuclear fission or fusion.
2. To admit of burning: Wood burns easily.
3. To be consumed with strong emotion, especially:.
4. To be destroyed, injured, damaged, or changed by or as if by fire: a house that burned to the ground; eggs that burned and stuck to the pan.
5. To be electrocuted.
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burn | 6 |
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nu | 2 |
un | 2 |
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bun | 5 |
bur | 5 |
nub | 5 |
rub | 5 |
run | 3 |
urb | 5 |
urn | 3 |
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burn | 6 |