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burnt

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burnt

Verb

Adjective

burn

Noun

∙ A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
∙ A sensation resembling such an injury.
∙ The act of burning something.
∙ Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
∙ An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult. slang
∙ tobacco Britain, chiefly prison slang
∙ The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
∙ A disease in vegetables; brand.
∙ An effective insult.

Verb

∙ To cause to be consumed by fire. transitive
∙ To be consumed by fire, or in flames. intransitive
∙ To overheat so as to make unusable. transitive
∙ To become overheated to the point of being unusable. intransitive
∙ To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat. transitive
∙ To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals. transitive
∙ To cauterize. transitive, surgery
∙ To sunburn. transitive, intransitive
∙ To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does. transitive
∙ To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. intransitive
∙ To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize. chemistry, transitive
∙ To combine energetically, with evolution of heat. chemistry, dated
∙ To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. transitive, computing
∙ To betray. transitive, slang
∙ To insult or defeat. transitive, slang
∙ To waste (time). transitive
∙ In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
∙ To accidentally touch a moving stone. intransitive, curling
∙ In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card. transitive, card games
∙ To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge). photography

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