[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.
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   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 

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