Definitions for burning

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burning burn·ing

Spelling: [bur-ning]

IPA: /ˈbɜr nɪŋ/

Burning is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in burning (bginnru).

Definitions for burning

noun

1. the state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat.
2. the baking of ceramic products to develop hardness and other properties.
3. the heating or the calcining of certain ores and rocks as a preliminary stage in various industrial processes.
4. a burned place or area:
5. Pathology. an injury usually caused by heat but also by abnormal cold, chemicals, poison gas, electricity, or lightning, and characterized by a painful reddening and swelling of the epidermis (first-degree burn) damage extending into the dermis, usually with blistering (second-degree burn) or destruction of the epidermis and dermis extending into the deeper tissue with loss of pain receptors (third-degree burn)
6. slow burn.
7. the process or an instance of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
8. a forest or brush fire.
9. the firing of a rocket engine.
10. a burning sensation felt in the muscles during intense exercise (usually preceded by the):
11. Slang. a swindle.

Idioms

1. burn one's bridges (behind one). bridge1 (def 26).
2. burn oneself out, to exhaust one's energy, ideas, etc., through overwork or intemperance:
3. burn the midnight oil, to work, study,etc., until late at night:
4. burn the / one's candle at both ends, to be excessively active or immoderate, as by leading an active social life by night and a busy work life by day:

adjective

1. aflame; on fire.
2. very hot; simmering:
3. very bright; glowing:
4. caused by or as if by fire, a burn, or heat:
5. intense; passionate:
6. urgent or crucial:

Verb phrases

1. burn down, to burn to the ground:
2. burn in, Photography. (in printing) to expose (one part of an image) to more light by masking the other parts in order to darken and give greater detail to the unmasked area. Also, print in. Compare dodge (def 2).
3. burn off, (of morning mist) to be dissipated by the warmth of the rising sun.
4. burn on, to weld lead with lead.
5. burn one up, Informal. to incite to anger:
6. burn out, to cease functioning because something has been exhausted or burned up, as fuel or a filament: to deprive of a place to live, work, etc., by reason of fire: to wear out; exhaust; be worn out; become exhausted.
7. burn up, to burn completely or utterly: Informal. to become angry:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to undergo combustion or be consumed partly or wholly by fire.
2. to use as fuel or as a source of light:
3. to cause to feel the sensation of heat.
4. to overcook or char:
5. to sunburn.
6. to injure, endanger, or damage with or as if with fire:
7. to execute by burning:
8. to subject to fire or treat with heat as a process of manufacturing.
9. to produce with or as if with fire:
10. to cause sharp pain or a stinging sensation:
11. to consume rapidly, especially to squander:
12. Slang. to suffer losses or be disillusioned in business or social relationships:
13. Slang. to cheat or rob.
14. Digital Technology. to copy or write data to (an optical disk): Compare rip1 (def 4).
15. Chemistry. to cause to undergo combustion; oxidize.
16. to damage through excessive friction, as in grinding or machining; scorch.
17. Metallurgy. to oxidize (a steel ingot), as with a flame.
18. British. to scald (a wine, especially sherry) in an iron container over a fire.
19. Cards. to put (a played or rejected card) face up at the bottom of the pack.
20. Slang. to disclose the identity of (an undercover agent, law officer, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire:
2. (of a fireplace, furnace, etc.) to contain a fire.
3. to feel heat or a physiologically similar sensation; feel pain from or as if from a fire:
4. to give off light or to glow brightly:
5. to give off heat or be hot:
6. to produce pain or a stinging sensation similar to that of fire; cause to smart:
7. Games. to be extremely close to finding a concealed object or guessing an answer.
8. to feel extreme anger:
9. to feel strong emotion or passion:
10. Chemistry. to undergo combustion, either fast or slow; oxidize. to undergo fission or fusion.
11. to become charred or overcooked by heat:
12. to receive a sunburn:
13. to be damned:
14. Slang. to die in an electric chair:
15. to be engraved by or as if by burning:

Origin of burning

before 1000; Middle English brenning (noun, adj.), Old English byrnende (adj.). See burn¹, -ing¹

Examples for burning

Then there came upon him to reinforce this want a burning sense of defeat.

The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

Yesterday morning they were at Cowes, and we saw the smoke from the burning crofts.

On his Instagram account (which has since been taken down), Brinsley made one reference to burning an American flag.

But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.

Care should be exercised in their baking to prevent them from burning.

Author James Patterson is calling out President Obama with a video of burning books.

There was a flame at his heart, a burning lump in his throat.

Protection grew fierce, and fanned the burning sense of wrong.

It reacts very readily with oxygen by burning smokelessly, with carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.