burn
To cause to be consumed by fireTo cause to be consumed by fire; to destroy or otherwise impact with fire or flames.
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» You can't burn anything without oxygen.
Ohne Sauerstoff kannst du nichts verbrennen. — cost
Без кислорода ничего не горит. — sharptoothed
Без кисню не можна нічого запалити. — deniko
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By meaning 5
By meaning 2
Examples
1296 sentencesYou 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
I burned my hand with an iron.
Я обпік руку праскою. — lingvokrolik
ruЯ обжёг руку утюгом. — al_ex_an_der
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(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
(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
(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
(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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
(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 breFrom 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, burnedTenses
burn · burned · will burn · have burnedPhrasal verbs
7 phrasal verbs- burn downсжечь дотлаabbrennenincendiarcarboniserspalićcarbonizarTo cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
- burn outTo destroy by fire.
- burn inTo eat into, as fire.
- burn offTo dissipate as the result of heat.
- burn uppopalić sięTo catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- burn throughTo use up in a hasty or destructive manner.
- burn awayTo remove or be removed by burning.
Synonyms
49 synonymsWord family
34 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
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 dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.