Concept cluster: Physical processes > Burning or burn
n
A material that ablates, vaporizes, wears away, burns off, erodes, or abrades.
adj
(obsolete) kindled
n
(medicine, obsolete) A burn or scald.
n
spontaneous combustion
adj
Describing a substance that tends to spontaneously explode
v
(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
adj
(food) Synonym of charred.
adj
(informal) Exceedingly angry.
adj
Very fast.
n
(informal, humorous) An instance of intense burning; conflagration.
adj
So hot as to seem to burn (something).
adj
Extremely hot.
n
(derogatory) The era of persecution and execution of suspected witches, often incorrectly expanded to include the Early and High Middle Ages.
n
(rare) The property of burning or seeming to burn.
v
(rare) (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of burnish
adj
(colloquial) Tending to burn.
n
A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
v
(American spelling, Canadian spelling, Oxford British English) To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
v
To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
n
The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
adj
(astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
adj
(figuratively, dated) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
n
(figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
adj
Of, or pertaining to, combustion.
adj
inflammable; combustible
adj
brightly burning
adj
Burnt, destroyed by fire.
v
(transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
n
A burn to the skin caused by contact with an extremely cold surface.
adj
That can be dammed.
adj
Of or pertaining to rapidly burnable materials, or to a process of rapid combustion.
adj
That burns with intense light and heat.
n
The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
adj
Burnt to cinders.
adj
Always burning.
adj
Glowing, burning, very hot.
adj
Inflammable or easily ignited.
adj
blackened by contact with fire
n
Cauterization.
adj
Obsolete form of fiery. [Of or relating to fire.]
adj
(Internet slang) Capable of, or suitable for, being flamed.
adj
Cooked or seared over open flames.
adj
(poetic) Full of flame; fiery.
adj
Deserving of being subjected to or engulfed by flames
adj
Easily set on fire.
n
An explosive.
adj
explosive
n
Any similar process of singeing.
adj
That has been sacrificed by being completely burned.
n
(Japan, non-native speakers' English) An icy road.
adj
(poetic) Presiding over fire; fiery.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.
adj
Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
adj
(obsolete) Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.
adj
Destroyed by incineration.
adj
Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
adj
Liable to catch fire
adj
Describing the hottest part of a Bunsen burner flame where the combustion zones are in the form of cones.
n
(humorous) A hypothetical burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to moonlight.
adj
(obsolete) Burning, fiery.
n
A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.
n
screenburn
adj
(colloquial) Very hot.
n
A burning sensation in the hands after sliding down a rope too rapidly.
n
(uncountable) Rugburns in general.
n
Alternative form of St. Anthony's fire [Ergotism, a disease characterised by gangrene and a burning sensation in the hands and feet.]
adj
extremely hot
n
(uncountable) The act or process of slightly burning.
n
Alternative form of smouldering [(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.]
adj
(of plants and other objects) Dried by the sun's rays.
n
Localized damage to the tissues of trees or their fruits caused by bright sunlight
adj
Placed in an urn.
n
(obsolete) The act of burning, or the state of being burned.
adj
(obsolete) Having the quality of burning.
adj
Blackened as if burned.
n
The phenomenon of the partial or total destruction of a human body by fire, when the clothing of the victim soaks up melted body fat and acts like the wick of a candle.
adj
Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
adj
Alternative form of windburned [Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.]

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