To Burn
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.