📒 to produce flames and heat
- A welcoming fire was burning in the fireplace.
- Fires were burning all over the city.
- A small candle burned brightly.
📒 to be on fire
- By nightfall the whole city was burning.
- The girl ran from the burning building.
- Two children were rescued from the burning car.
📒 to destroy, damage, injure or kill somebody/something by fire; to be destroyed, etc. by fire
- Six million acres have burned this year in the United States.
- The house burned to the ground.
- Ten people burned to death in the hotel fire.
📒 if you burn a fuel, or a fuel burns, it produces heat, light or energy
- Which fuel burns most efficiently?
- burn something a furnace that burns gas/oil/coke
- (figurative) Some people burn calories (= use food to produce energy) faster than others.
📒 if food burns, or if you burn it, it is damaged by too much heat
- I can smell something burning in the kitchen.
- burn something Sorry—I burnt the toast.
📒 to be damaged or injured by the sun, heat, acid, etc.; to damage or injure somebody/something in this way
- My skin burns easily (= in the sun).
- fair skin that burns easily
- burn somebody I got badly burned by the sun yesterday.
📒 if part of your body burns or is burning, it feels very hot and painful
- Your forehead's burning. Have you got a fever?
- Her cheeks burned with embarrassment.
- My feet hurt.
📒 to produce light
- Lights were burning upstairs, but no one answered the door.
- hot sunshine burning through the windows
- Their torches burned brightly in the dark.
📒 to feel or show a very strong emotion or desire
- Her eyes burned fiercely.
- burn with something to be burning with rage/ambition/love
- burn to do something He was burning to go climbing again.
📒 to move very fast in a particular direction
- The car was burning down the road.
📒 to make somebody very angry
- So you did it just to burn me?
📒 to put information onto a CD or DVD
📒 to spend money
- burn something The project burns £2 million a year in contractor costs.
- burn through something The state has already burned through its cash reserves.
📒 to do something that makes it impossible to return to the previous situation later
- Think carefully before you resign—you don't want to burn your bridges.
📒 to become very tired by trying to do too many things and going to bed late and getting up early
📒 to suffer as a result of doing something without realizing the possible bad results, especially in business
- He got his fingers badly burnt dabbling in the stock market.
📒 if money burns a hole in your pocket, you want to spend it as soon as you have it
📒 to study or work until late at night
📒 to drive very fast
📒 to become completely burnt, especially because it has been cooked for too long
- By the time I got home, the cake was burnt to a cinder.
- The tower was struck by lightning and was burned to a cinder.
- I like my steak burnt to a cinder on the outside and blood red and juicy inside.
📒 to go wrong or to fail badly and suddenly
- His career crashed and burned after he threatened a journalist.
- The stock markets are getting ready to crash and burn.
- She continued to crash and burn through personal controversies that included driving drunk.
📒 a person thinks that other people are talking about them, especially in an unkind way
- ‘I bumped into your ex-wife last night.’ ‘I thought I could feel my ears burning!’
📒 to have so much money that you do not have to be careful with it