Slash and burn (technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop)

(colloquial) skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces

(slang) A book for writing unpleasant information about others.

(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing. / (intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains.

Synonym of Indian sunburn

(idiomatic, colloquial) Being the topic of discussion in another place; or sensing that this is happening.

simple past tense of burn out

present participle of burn down

The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain. / An event where books are burned

(India) A flat area near the top of a river ghat where Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.