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Burns

noun

1.

United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996). Synonyms: George Burns, Nathan Birnbaum.

2.

Celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796). Synonym: Robert Burns.

Burn

verb

(past & past part. burned or burnt; pres. part. burning)

1.

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn down, fire.

2.

Shine intensely, as if with heat. Synonym: glow. "The candles were burning"

3.

Undergo combustion. Synonym: combust.

4.

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. Synonyms: bite, sting.

5.

Cause to burn or combust. Synonym: combust. "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

6.

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion. "He was burning to try out his new skies"

7.

Cause to undergo combustion. Synonym: incinerate. "The car burns only Diesel oil"

8.

Burn at the stake.

9.

Spend (significant amounts of money).

10.

Feel hot or painful.

11.

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize.

12.

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. Synonym: sunburn.

13.

Create by duplicating data. Synonym: cut. "Burn a CD"

14.

Use up (energy). Synonyms: burn off, burn up.

15.

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation.

noun

1.

Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. Synonym: burning.

2.

A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun. Synonyms: sunburn, suntan, tan.

3.

An injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation.

4.

A place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body). Synonym: burn mark.

5.

Damage inflicted by fire.

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"Burns" Quotes from Famous Books

... intact, and to produce by means of it a sharply defined focus. Placed at that focus, white paper is not ignited, because it fails to absorb the rays emergent from the ice-lens. At the same place, however, black paper instantly burns, because it ...

— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

... burns with the love of virtue, I am tremblingly alive to fame: what bitterness then must have been my portion had I first seen you when ...

— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke

... without art, or it may be a talisman; for if nitre and sulphur be sprinkled in the lamp, around the wick, then let the wind be ever so strong, the flame will not be extinguished—or may it not be the lamp of some holy man which burns? Let it be what it may, I ought to go and examine it; perhaps by the light of this lamp, the lamp of my house also may be lighted, [73] and the wish of my heart fulfilled." Having formed this resolution, ...

— Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes • Mir Amman of Dihli

... The Frost Spirit Songs of Labor Dedication Songs of Labor The Lumberman Barclay of Ury All's Well Raphael Seed-Time and Harvest The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall Skipper Ireson's Ride The Double-headed Snake of Newbury Maud Muller Burns The Hero The Eternal Goodness The Pipes at Lucknow Cobbler ...

— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood. Not but that they come by different means to the same conclusion; because it is the feeling, and not altogether the manner ...

— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

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