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noun
verb
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- burn brightly
- use up (energy)
- (transitive) To destroy by burning.
- (intransitive) To be angry or annoyed.
- (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- (transitive) To anger; to annoy.
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
- (intransitive, specifically) To experience a high fever.
- (intransitive) To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
noun
verb
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- move towards
- be erected, built, or constructed
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- travel up
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
- (cricket) To appeal for a dismissal.
- (intransitive) To be built or erected.
- (intransitive) To be imprisoned.
- (intransitive) To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
- (intransitive, performing arts) To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
- (intransitive) To move upwards.
- (intransitive) To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
verb
- To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
- To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
- shine with a sudden light
- criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium
- be in flames or aflame
adj
noun
- Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
- A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
- The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
- A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
- (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
adj
verb
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
noun
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
noun
- the act of burning something
- a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
- execution by electricity
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- execution by fire
- The act by which something burns or is burned.
- (cryptocurrencies) The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), which usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.
- A fiery pain.
- A fire.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of burning something
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- a state of violent disturbance and excitement
- A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
- (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
- A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
noun
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- complete annihilation
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
noun
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- (physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
- (metallurgy) The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
- (botany) The dissipation of energy from light in excess of what can be used for photosynthesis.
- (astronomy) A process in which a galaxy loses cold gas, thus strongly suppressing star formation.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
- (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
- (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- burn brightly
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
noun
- (figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- (in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A sudden bright light.
- (nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- (photography) Ellipsis of lens flare.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- (American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a sudden burst of flame
- a shape that spreads outward
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
verb
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
- (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
noun
- A charred substance.
- (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
- a charred substance
- a human female employed to do housework
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- undergo combustion
- cause to burn or combust
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- cause to undergo combustion
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- feel hot or painful
- destroy by fire
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- create by duplicating data
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- damage inflicted by fire
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
adj
noun
- (fiction) A work of fiction with a slow-paced plot; also, such a storyline.
- A gradually increasing expression of emotion, espeically anger or frustration.
- (idiomatic) Something that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.
- (fiction, fandom slang) A romantic story (especially a work of fan fiction) in which the central relationship develops slowly.
verb
- (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.
- (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
- (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
- smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one
verb
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
noun
adj
verb
verb
- burn maliciously, as by arson
- Of a fire: to burn.
- (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
- (informal, originally US) To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
- To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1 sense 1).
- (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
- (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
noun
- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
- A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
- A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
- A source of enlightenment or guidance.
- (US, slang) An arsonist.
- (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
- (chiefly Canada, US) Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
- (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
- In carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
- (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (by extension, Commonwealth) Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
verb
- (transitive) To burn slightly.
- burn superficially or lightly
- (transitive) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
- (transitive) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
- become superficially burned
noun
verb
- burn slowly and without a flame
- (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
- have strong suppressed feelings
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
- To inhale through the nose.
- To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
- sniff or smell inquiringly
- inhale (something) through the nose
noun
- The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- (slang) A murder.
- (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- the charred portion of a candlewick
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
adj
verb
- (intransitive) to commence burning.
- (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.
- (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
- (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- start to burn or burst into flames
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
verb
adj
noun
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- A con or swindle.
- (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- A semi-formal jacket.
- (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
adj
- Burning or glowing.
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Of or relating to fire.
- (butchery) Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- characterized by intense emotion
- like or suggestive of fire
noun
noun
- the act of burning something
- a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
- execution by electricity
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- execution by fire
- The act by which something burns or is burned.
- (cryptocurrencies) The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), which usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.
- A fiery pain.
- A fire.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of burning something
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- a state of violent disturbance and excitement
- A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
- (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
- A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
noun
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- complete annihilation
- a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- no longer in existence
- no longer active; extinguished
- (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
- (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
noun
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
- (physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
- (metallurgy) The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
- (botany) The dissipation of energy from light in excess of what can be used for photosynthesis.
- (astronomy) A process in which a galaxy loses cold gas, thus strongly suppressing star formation.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- A con or swindle.
- (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- A semi-formal jacket.
- (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- undergo combustion
- cause to burn or combust
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- cause to undergo combustion
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- feel hot or painful
- destroy by fire
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- create by duplicating data
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- damage inflicted by fire
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
verb
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
- (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
noun
- A charred substance.
- (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
- a charred substance
- a human female employed to do housework
verb
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- burn brightly
- use up (energy)
- (transitive) To destroy by burning.
- (intransitive) To be angry or annoyed.
- (intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- (transitive) To anger; to annoy.
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
- (intransitive, specifically) To experience a high fever.
- (intransitive) To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
noun
verb
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- move towards
- be erected, built, or constructed
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- travel up
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
- (cricket) To appeal for a dismissal.
- (intransitive) To be built or erected.
- (intransitive) To be imprisoned.
- (intransitive) To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
- (intransitive, performing arts) To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
- (intransitive) To move upwards.
- (intransitive) To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
verb
- To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
- To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
- shine with a sudden light
- criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium
- be in flames or aflame
adj
noun
- Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
- A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
- The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
- A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
- (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
verb
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
noun
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
verb
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
- (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
- (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- burn brightly
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
noun
- (figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- (in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A sudden bright light.
- (nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- (photography) Ellipsis of lens flare.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- (American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a sudden burst of flame
- a shape that spreads outward
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
verb
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
- (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
noun
- A charred substance.
- (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
- a charred substance
- a human female employed to do housework
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- undergo combustion
- cause to burn or combust
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- cause to undergo combustion
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- feel hot or painful
- destroy by fire
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- create by duplicating data
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
- (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- damage inflicted by fire
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
verb
- (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.
- (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
- (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
- smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one
verb
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
verb
- burn maliciously, as by arson
- Of a fire: to burn.
- (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
- (informal, originally US) To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
- To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1 sense 1).
- (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
- (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
noun
- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
- A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
- A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
- A source of enlightenment or guidance.
- (US, slang) An arsonist.
- (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
- (chiefly Canada, US) Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
- (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
- In carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
- (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (by extension, Commonwealth) Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
verb
- (transitive) To burn slightly.
- burn superficially or lightly
- (transitive) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
- (transitive) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
- become superficially burned
noun
verb
- burn slowly and without a flame
- (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
- have strong suppressed feelings
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To exist in a suppressed or hidden state.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
- To inhale through the nose.
- To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
- sniff or smell inquiringly
- inhale (something) through the nose
noun
- The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- (slang) A murder.
- (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- the charred portion of a candlewick
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
adj
verb
- (intransitive) to commence burning.
- (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.
- (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
- (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- start to burn or burst into flames
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
verb
adj
adj
adj
noun
- (fiction) A work of fiction with a slow-paced plot; also, such a storyline.
- A gradually increasing expression of emotion, espeically anger or frustration.
- (idiomatic) Something that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.
- (fiction, fandom slang) A romantic story (especially a work of fan fiction) in which the central relationship develops slowly.
adj
- Burning or glowing.
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Of or relating to fire.
- (butchery) Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- characterized by intense emotion
- like or suggestive of fire