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▸ noun:  A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
▸ noun:  A sensation resembling such an injury.
▸ noun:  The act of burning something with fire.
▸ noun:  (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
▸ noun:  (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
▸ noun:  Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
▸ noun:  (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
▸ noun:  The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
▸ noun:  (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
▸ noun:  A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek. See Etymology 2.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
▸ verb:  (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
▸ verb:  (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
▸ verb:  (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To betray.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
▸ verb:  In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
▸ verb:  (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
▸ verb:  (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
▸ verb:  (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
▸ verb:  (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
▸ noun:  (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
▸ noun:  A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
▸ noun:  A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
▸ noun:  A river in North Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Ure.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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