burn to damage, injure, destroy or kill somebody/​something with fire, heat or acid; to be damaged, etc. by fire, heat or acid: She burned all his letters. The ...

[countable] an injury or a mark caused by fire, heat or acid. to have minor/severe/third-degree burns; She suffered serious burns but is expected to survive ...

an injury or a mark caused by fire, heat, or acid; minor/severe/third-degree burns; cigarette burns on the furniture; burn marks; a burn unit in a hospital.

burn to damage, injure, destroy, or kill something or someone with fire, heat, or acid; to be damaged, etc. · char [usually passive] to make something black by ...

Of fire, a furnace, or conflagration: To be in the state of activity characteristic of fire; to be in the state of combustion.

1.a. 1594– The act or effect of burning; esp. an injury to the body caused by burning, a burnt place.

​(of feelings, etc.) very strong; extreme. a burning desire to win; He's always had a burning ambition to start his own business.

1(of feelings, etc.) very strong; extreme a burning desire to win He's always had a burning ambition to start his own business.

to be destroyed, or to destroy something, by fire. The house burned down in 1895. See burn down in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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