English words for 'A burning alive.'
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noun
prep_phrase
- Being burned by fire.
- (idiomatic) Doing very well; achieving good results at a rapid rate.
- (idiomatic, informal) Sexually aroused.
- (idiomatic) Overwhelmed with emotion; beside oneself.
- (idiomatic) Excited, enthusiastic or passionate.
- (hyperbolic, of a body part) Experiencing a burning-like sensation, especially "the burn" (from buildup of lactic acid)
adj
adj
- Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
- Radiant with bright light and color.
- In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.
- lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
- resembling flame in brilliance or color
- lighted with red light as if with flames
adv
adj
adj
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Taken from a living animal.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
adv
verb
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
noun
noun
- Someone or something that burns.
- (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- (slang) Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
- (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
- (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
- (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
- (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- (slang) A gun.
- A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
- A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
- the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
adj
- On fire with visible flames.
- (colloquial, typically of a gay man) Extremely obvious; visibly evident.
- (British, Australia, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
- Very enthusiastic or passionate.
- (colloquial) Very showy, flamboyant.
- Very bright and the color of flame.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- informal intensifiers
noun
verb
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- (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
verb
- undergo combustion
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- (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) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (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
- cause to burn or combust
- 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
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
adj
noun
- the act of burning something
- A fiery pain.
- A 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 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
verb
noun
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- 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
- (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.
verb
- burn brightly and intensely
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (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.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (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.
noun
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
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
adj
adj
verb
noun
- the act of burning something
- 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.
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
verb
- ignite
- start to burn with a bright flame
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- become clear
- (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To activate the emergency sirens on a police vehicle in order to pull someone over.
- (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
- (transitive) To make happy.
- (transitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc. for (someone).
- (intransitive) To start to emit light; to become activated as a light source.
- (transitive) To introduce (someone to something), to make someone aware of or interested in something; turn on.
- (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To shock (someone) with a stun gun.
- (transitive, nautical) To loosen, slacken, or ease off.
- (transitive, slang) To open fire on a target or group of targets, especially with rockets, a flamethrower, etc.
- (intransitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
- (transitive) To ignite.
verb
- burn brightly
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
noun
- 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
- (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.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
- The act of adding fuel to a fire.
- The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
- (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- Cauterization.
- The fuel for a fire.
verb
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
- The act of igniting.
- The initiation of combustion.
- (physics) The phenomenon of a thermonuclear fusion reaction becoming self-sustaining and no longer requiring external heating.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A system for activating combustion in a combustion engine.
- (automotive) Receptacle for a key used to start the engine in a vehicle.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- arousal to violent emotion
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- having abundant light or illumination
- the craft of providing artificial light
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
- The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
verb
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
- 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.)
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
noun
adj
verb
verb
- Of a fire: to burn.
- burn maliciously, as by arson
- (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 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”).
- 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
verb
- become superficially burned
- make very hot and dry
- destroy completely by or as if by fire
- become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
- subject to harsh criticism
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
- (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
noun
verb
- become superficially burned
- cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
- make very hot and dry
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
- (transitive, figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
- (transitive, figurative) To make callous or insensible.
- To wither; to dry up.
adj
noun
verb
- become superficially burned
- burn superficially or lightly
- (transitive) To burn slightly.
- (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.
noun
adj
- Having the colour of fire.
- 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.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- characterized by intense emotion
- like or suggestive of fire
noun
adj
noun
noun
noun
- Someone or something that burns.
- (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- (slang) Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
- (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
- (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
- (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
- (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- (slang) A gun.
- A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
- A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
- the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- (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
verb
- undergo combustion
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- (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) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (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
- cause to burn or combust
- 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
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
noun
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- 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
- (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.
verb
- burn brightly and intensely
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (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.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (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.
noun
adj
verb
adj
noun
- the act of burning something
- A fiery pain.
- A 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 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
verb
noun
- the act of burning something
- 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.
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
- The act of adding fuel to a fire.
- The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
- (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- Cauterization.
- The fuel for a fire.
verb
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
- The act of igniting.
- The initiation of combustion.
- (physics) The phenomenon of a thermonuclear fusion reaction becoming self-sustaining and no longer requiring external heating.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A system for activating combustion in a combustion engine.
- (automotive) Receptacle for a key used to start the engine in a vehicle.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- arousal to violent emotion
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
noun
- the act of setting something on fire
- having abundant light or illumination
- the craft of providing artificial light
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
- The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
verb
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
- 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.)
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
noun
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- become superficially burned
- burn superficially or lightly
- (transitive) To burn slightly.
- (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.
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.
noun
- The act of burning something with fire.
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- (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
verb
- undergo combustion
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- (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) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (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
- cause to burn or combust
- 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
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- use up (energy)
verb
adj
verb
- ignite
- start to burn with a bright flame
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- become clear
- (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To activate the emergency sirens on a police vehicle in order to pull someone over.
- (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
- (transitive) To make happy.
- (transitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc. for (someone).
- (intransitive) To start to emit light; to become activated as a light source.
- (transitive) To introduce (someone to something), to make someone aware of or interested in something; turn on.
- (chiefly US, transitive, slang) To shock (someone) with a stun gun.
- (transitive, nautical) To loosen, slacken, or ease off.
- (transitive, slang) To open fire on a target or group of targets, especially with rockets, a flamethrower, etc.
- (intransitive) To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
- (transitive) To ignite.
verb
- burn brightly
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
noun
- 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
- (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.
noun
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- 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
- (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.
verb
- burn brightly and intensely
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (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.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (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.
verb
- Of a fire: to burn.
- burn maliciously, as by arson
- (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 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”).
- 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
verb
- become superficially burned
- make very hot and dry
- destroy completely by or as if by fire
- become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
- subject to harsh criticism
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
- (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
noun
verb
- become superficially burned
- cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
- make very hot and dry
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
- (transitive, figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
- (transitive, figurative) To make callous or insensible.
- To wither; to dry up.
adj
noun
verb
- become superficially burned
- burn superficially or lightly
- (transitive) To burn slightly.
- (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.
noun
adj
- Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
- Radiant with bright light and color.
- In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.
- lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
- resembling flame in brilliance or color
- lighted with red light as if with flames
adv
adj
- Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
- Radiant with bright light and color.
- In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.
- lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
- resembling flame in brilliance or color
- lighted with red light as if with flames
adv
adj
adj
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Taken from a living animal.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
adv
verb
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
adj
- On fire with visible flames.
- (colloquial, typically of a gay man) Extremely obvious; visibly evident.
- (British, Australia, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
- Very enthusiastic or passionate.
- (colloquial) Very showy, flamboyant.
- Very bright and the color of flame.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- informal intensifiers
noun
verb
adj
noun
- the act of burning something
- A fiery pain.
- A 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 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
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
verb
adj
- Having the colour of fire.
- 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.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
- passionate or quick-tempered
- characterized by intense emotion
- like or suggestive of fire