Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
to be consumed by fire — see also deflagrate:
to cause to be consumed by fire:
computing: to write data:
Русский
By meaning 5
to be consumed by fire — see also deflagrate:
to become overheated:
to cause to be consumed by fire:
computing: to write data:
to injure with heat or chemicals:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to be consumed by fire — see also deflagrate:
to cause to be consumed by fire:

Examples

1296 sentences
  1. You can't burn anything without oxygen.

    Без кисню не можна нічого запалити. — deniko

    ruБез кислорода ничего не горит. — sharptoothed

    deOhne Sauerstoff kannst du nichts verbrennen. — cost

  2. I burned my hand with an iron.

    Я обпік руку праскою. — lingvokrolik

    ruЯ обжёг руку утюгом. — al_ex_an_der

  3. I burned all the letters that you wrote me.

    Я спалив всі листи, які ти мені написав. — deniko

    ruЯ сожгла все письма, которые ты мне писал. — marafon

    deIch habe alle Briefe verbrannt, die du mir geschrieben hast. — Yorwba

Meaning

40 senses
  1. (transitive)To cause to be consumed by fire; to destroy or otherwise impact with fire or flames.

    We'll burn all this wood by morning.

    The campfire was ready to go, so she burned it with her lighter.

    verbrennen

    жечьžečʹ, сжига́тьsžigátʹ, сжечьsžečʹ

    пали́тиpalýty, спали́тиspalýty

    destroy by fire

  2. (intransitive, transitive)To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; to injure with acid or other chemical reactions; to be painful as if by fire or heat; to be hot.

    Be careful, as that chemical is acidic enough to burn you.

    Habaneros burn more intensely than most peppers. They will burn your mouth.

    verbrennen

    обжига́тьobžigátʹ, обже́чьobžéčʹ

  3. (intransitive)To be consumed by fire or in flames.

    He watched the house burn.

    The wood will not burn well because it is wet.

    brennen

    горе́тьgorétʹ, сгоре́тьsgorétʹ, пыла́тьpylátʹ

    горі́тиhoríty, згорі́тиzhoríty

More meanings 37
  1. (ambitransitive)To warm (something); to put off intense heat; to be hot.

    The heat from the open oven burned the air around me.

    The sun's rays burned hot today.

    shine intensely, as if with heat

  2. To make or produce by the application of real or figurative fire, light or burning heat.

    (transitive)To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

    brennen

    записатьzapisatʹ

    записатиzapysaty

  3. To be consumed by fire or in flames.

    (intransitive)To become overheated to the point of being unusable; to become scorched.

    The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

    перегрева́тьсяperegrevátʹsja, перегре́тьсяperegrétʹsja

  4. To use up; to use by burning; to consume as fuel.

    (transitive)To waste time, money or other resources.

    We have an hour to burn.

    The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

  5. To be consumed by fire or in flames.

    (intransitive)To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

    The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.

    горе́тьgorétʹ, пыла́тьpylátʹ

  6. To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; to injure with acid or other chemical reactions; to be painful as if by fire or heat; to be hot.

    (intransitive, transitive)To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

    to burn iron in oxygen

    A human being burns a certain amount of carbon with each respiration.

  7. To make or produce by the application of real or figurative fire, light or burning heat.

    (transitive)To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).

  8. To be consumed by fire or in flames.

    (intransitive)To contain a fire or coals.

    The wood stove was burning, giving off plenty of heat.

    The campfire died down, but it's still burning enough to feel some warmth through the night.

  9. (intransitive)To be executed by an electric chair.

    In this state, he could burn for his crimes.

Origin

From late Middle English burne, birne, metathetic form of brinne, brynne, a variant of bre

From late Middle English burne, birne, metathetic form of brinne, brynne, a variant of brennen, from Old Norse brinna, brenna (“to burn”), from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”). Doublet of brew.

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Forms

burns, burning, burned, burned

regular

Base formburn · to burn
3rd person singularburns
Present participleburning
Past simpleburned / burnt
Past participleburned / burnt

Tenses

burn · burned · will burn · have burned

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyburn
he, she, itburns

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave burned
he, she, ithas burned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill burn

Past simpleLesson

all personsburned

Phrasal verbs

7 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

49 synonyms
To be consumed by fire or in flames:burn upcombustgo up
To injure with heat, flames or scorching:vitriolize
To harden in a kiln:fireB2
Close in meaning

Word family

34 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • house burned down
  • burned all
  • burn all these
  • had burned down
  • badly burned
  • house burned
  • house had burned
  • were burned down
  • house was burned
  • burnt the toast
  • was badly burned
  • burned to death

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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