English Dictionary

burn

/bɝn/

verb

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire. / (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames. / (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.

He accidentally burned the toast.

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

He watched the house burn.

He watched the house burn. burn

意味（3）

(transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.

He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

意味（5）

(transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block

意味（6）

(transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

意味（7）

(transitive, surgery) To cauterize.

意味（8）

(transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.

She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

意味（9）

(transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

to burn the mouth with pepper

意味（10）

(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.

意味（11）

(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen

意味（12）

(chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

Copper burns in chlorine.

意味（13）

(transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

意味（14）

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

My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.

意味（15）

(transitive, slang) To betray.

The informant burned him.

意味（16）

(transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.

I just burned you again.

意味（17）

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

We have an hour to burn.

意味（18）

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!

意味（19）

(intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.

意味（20）

(transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

意味（21）

(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

意味（22）

(intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

意味（23）

(intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.

意味（24）

(transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.

意味（25）

(transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).

He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.

意味（26）

(transitive, espionage) To blackmail.

How does Leipzig burn him precisely? Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]