Definition of "burn" []

To cause to undergo combustion. (verb-transitive)
To destroy with fire: burned the trash; burn a house down. (verb-transitive)
To consume (fuel or energy, for example): burned all the wood that winter. (verb-transitive)
Physics To cause to undergo nuclear fission or fusion. (verb-transitive)
To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent: burned the toast; burned my skin with the acid. (verb-transitive)

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Use "burn" in a sentence

"Once I believed myself one of the most courageous of men; I have beheld _death_ in many terrible shapes, and feared it in none; but, oh! to burn, -- to _burn!"
"(i.e. the sea), 1862. bärnan, w. v., _to cause to burn, to burn_: inf. hêt ... bânfatu bärnan,"
"(i.e. the sea), 1862. bærnan, w. v., _to cause to burn, to burn_: inf. hēt ... bānfatu bærnan,"

Words like "burn"

bake blister burned burning burns burnt care for

cauterize change integrity char color colour consume discolour

execute hurting oxidize pain put to death scald scorch

sear singe

to burn down

to burn together

treat