[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

burn \burn\ b^urn, v. t. imp.  p. p. burned b^urnd
   or burnt b^urnt; p. pr.  vb. n. burning. oe.
   bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen,
   v. i., as. baernan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to
   os. brinnan, ofries. barna, berna, ohg. brinnan, brennan, g.
   brennen, od. bernen, d. branden, dan. braende, sw.
   braumnna, brinna, icel. brenna, goth. brinnan, brannjan in
   comp., and possibly to e. fervent.
   1. to consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of
      heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn
      up wood. "we'll burn his body in the holy place." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some
      property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or
      heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char;
      to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face
      in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
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   3. to perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the
      action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to
      destroy or change some property or properties of, by
      exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a
      desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn
      clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to
      produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
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   4. to make or produce, as an effect or result, by the
      application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn
      charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
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   5. to consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by
      action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does;
      as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
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            this tyrant fever burns me up.        --shak.
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            this dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --dryden.
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            when the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth
            the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
            consumeth the ??ass as fire.          --ecclus.
                                                  xliii. 20, 21.
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   6. surg. to apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
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   7. chem. to cause to combine with oxygen or other active
      agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as,
      a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each
      respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
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   to burn, to burn together, as two surfaces of metal
      engin., to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a
      quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.

   to burn a bowl game of bowls, to displace it
      accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be
      burned.

   to burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to
      waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --shak.

   to burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected
      trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others,
      speculation, etc.

   to burn out,
      a to destroy or obliterate by burning. "must you with
          hot irons burn out mine eyes?" --shak.
      b to force people to flee by burning their homes or
          places of business; as, the rioters burned out the
          chinese businessmen.

   to be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of
      one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.

   to burn up, to burn down, to burn entirely.
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see also:
burned burnt burning to burn to burn together to burn a bowl 
to burn daylight to burn one's fingers to burn out to be burned out to burn up 
to burn down 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

burning \burn"ing\, n.
   the act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the
   effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or
   excessively heated.
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   burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the
      lighter petroleums naphtha, benzine, or oil of
      turpentine camphine, but esp. a mixture of the latter
      with alcohol.

   burning glass, a convex lens of considerable size, used for
      producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to
      a focus.

   burning house metal., the furnace in which tin ores are
      calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the
      pyrites. --weale.

   burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane
      mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
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   syn: combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.
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see also:
burning fluid burning glass burning house burning mirror 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

burning \burn"ing\, a.
   1. that burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
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   2. consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement;
      powerful; as, burning zeal.
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            like a young hound upon a burning scent. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   burning bush bot., an ornamental shrub euonymus
      atropurpureus, bearing a crimson berry.
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see also:
burning bush euonymus atropurpureus 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

burning
     adj 1: producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for
            water to soothe his burning throat"
     2: intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand" syn: burninga
     3: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent
        lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to
        change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an
        impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" syn: ardent,
         burninga, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned,
         perfervid, torrid
     4: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
        or afire by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
        aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
        on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a
        burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on
        fire" syn: ablazep, afirep, aflamep, aflarep,
         alightp, blazing, flaming, on firep
     5: of immediate import; "burning issues of the day" syn: burninga
     6: consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning or
        wood-burning stoves"
     n 1: the act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was
          prohibited by a town ordinance" syn: combustion
     2: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire syn: burn
     3: a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give
        heat and light syn: combustion
     4: execution by electricity syn: electrocution
     5: execution by fire syn: burning at the stake
see also:
burninga ardent fervent fervid fiery impassioned 
perfervid torrid ablazep afirep aflamep 
aflarep alightp blazing flaming on firep 
combustion burn electrocution burning at the stake 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

383 moby thesaurus words for "burning":
   abandoned, ablaze, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic,
   acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow,
   algetic, alight, angry, animal heat, approaching, approximate,
   approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, baking, beaming, beamy,
   beheading, bitter, blazing, blistering, blood heat, blushing,
   body heat, boiling, boiling over, branding, breathless, bright,
   bright and sunny, bright-hued, brilliant, brisk, broiling, burn,
   burning hot, burning pain, burning with excitement, calcination,
   calefacient, calefactive, calefactory, calidity, caloric, candent,
   candescent, canicular, capital punishment, carbonization, caustic,
   cauterant, cauterization, cautery, chafed, chafing, cheek-by-jowl,
   choleric, cineration, clamant, clamorous, close, coal heat,
   colorful, colory, comburent, combustion, committed, concremation,
   conflagrant, convected heat, cordial, cracking, cremation,
   crucifixion, crying, cupellation, curried, decapitation,
   decollation, dedicated, deep-colored, defenestration, deflagration,
   delirious, destructive distillation, devoted, devout, dire,
   distillation, distilling, drunk, earnest, ebullient, electric heat,
   electrocution, embittered, emphatic, enthusiastic, estral, estrous,
   estrual, excited, exciting, execution, exigent, exotic, exuberant,
   faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, festering, fever, fever heat,
   fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, fire, flagrant, flaming,
   flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, flushing,
   fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, funeral pile, fusillade, galled,
   garrote, gas heat, gassing, gay, gay-colored, gleaming, gleamy,
   glinting, glowing, gorgeous, grilling, guttering, hand-in-hand,
   hanging, hearty, heat, heated, heatedness, heating, hectic,
   hemlock, het up, high-colored, high-seasoned, hot, hot as fire,
   hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air heat, hot-blooded, hotness,
   hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hypothermia, ignescent, ignited,
   illuminant, impassioned, imperative, importunate, in a blaze,
   in a fever, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in heat, in must,
   in rut, incalescence, incandescent, incineration, induction heat,
   inflamed, instant, intense, intent, intent on, intimate,
   intoxicated, irradiative, irritated, judicial murder, keen,
   kindled, lamping, lapidation, light as day, lighted,
   like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively, living, loyal,
   luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous,
   luminificent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, molecular heat, must,
   musty, near, near the mark, nearing, nearish, necktie party, nigh,
   nighish, nippy, oil heat, on fire, orient, overheated, overwarm,
   oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, peppery, perfervid,
   piping hot, poisoning, propinque, provoking, proximal, proximate,
   pyre, pyretic, pyrolysis, racy, radiant, radiant heat, raging,
   rancorous, rankled, rankling, raw, red, red-hot,
   reduction to ashes, reeking, refining, resentful, resenting,
   resolute, rich, rich-colored, roasting, rutilant, rutilous,
   rutting, ruttish, rutty, scalding, scintillant, scintillating,
   scorching, scorification, searing, seasoned, seething,
   self-immolation, sensitive, serious, sexually excited, shining,
   shiny, shooting, side-by-side, simmering, sincere, singeing,
   sizzling, sizzling hot, smart, smarting, smelting, smoking,
   smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solar heat, sore, sparking,
   spiced, spicy, spirited, splenetic, starbright, starlike, starry,
   steam heat, steaming, steamy, stewing, stimulating, sting,
   stinging, stirring, stoning, strangling, strangulation, streaming,
   sudorific, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, superheat, superheatedness,
   suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, tangy, tender,
   the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber,
   the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the stake,
   thermal radiation, thermogenesis, tingle, tingling, toasting,
   torrid, ultraviolet heat, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained,
   urgent, urtication, vehement, vesication, vicinal, vigorous,
   violent, virulent, vivid, warm, warming, warmness, warmth,
   white-hot, with a kick, withering, zealous, zestful, zesty,
   zippy

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

burning. vide accident; arson; fire, accidental. 

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