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  1. transitive verb To cause to undergo combustion.
  2. transitive verb To destroy with fire: burned the trash; burn a house down.
  3. transitive verb To consume (fuel or energy, for example): burned all the wood that winter.
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  • Everything that is done to treat burn -- basically we do a sodding approach. —  Alan Russell on regenerating our bodies
  • Eye burn -- this is what happens to the people in Miami who are looking up. —  George Dyson on Project Orion
  • Now I had to worry about wind-burn, as the frigid wind sliced past my face. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
  • If the burn was as big as Stark described, Engine No. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • The head of the burn was a violent crown fire racing east, beneath a chimney of malign smoke that towered kilometers above the hover. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
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  1. Middle English burnen, from Old English beornan, to be on fire, and from bærnan, to set on fire; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English burna; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Under this form and the obsolete or dial. brin, bren, brun, are now confused two different but related verbs, which are quite distinct in Anglo-Saxon and the other older tongues: (1) burn, from Middle English bernen, bærnen, barnen, brennen, from Anglo-Saxon bærnan (preterit bærnde, past participle bærned) = Old Saxon brennian = Middle Dutch bernen (in modern D. displaced by the secondary form branden: see brand, v.) = Low German brennen = OFries. berna, barna = Old High German brennan, Middle High German G. brennen = Icelandic brenna = Swedish bränna = Danish brænde = Gothic (Moesogothic) brannjan (in comp.), burn, consume with fire, orig. and properly transitive, a weak verb, factitive of the next; (2) burn, from Middle English birnen, beornen, brinnen, from Anglo-Saxon beornan, byrnan (preterit barn, bearn, plural burnon, past participle bornen), a transposed form of brinnan (in comp. on-brinnan) = Old Saxon brinnan = Old High German brinnan, Middle High German German dial. brinnen = Icelandic brenna, older brinna, = Gothic (Moesogothic) brinnan, burn, be on fire; orig. and properly intransitive, a strong verb; not known outside of Teutonic Deriv. brand, brine, perhaps burn = bourn, etc.
  2. from burn, v.
  3. Also written bourn, bourne, which with a different pron. is the usual form in the south of England (see bourn, bourne); from Middle English bourne, commonly burne, from Anglo-Saxon burna, masculine, also burne, feminine, a brook, stream (= Old Saxon brunno = OFries. burna = Old Dutch borne, Dutch born, bron = Low German born (later G. born) = Old High German brunno, Middle High German brunne, German brunnen, brunne, brunn = Icelandic brunnr = Swedish brunn = Danish brönd, a spring, fountain, well, = Gothic (Moesogothic) brunna, a spring), prob. from brinnan (past participle *brunnen), etc., burn: see burn. Cf. the similar origin of well and torrent. Not connected with Greek φρέαρ, a well.
  4. Middle English, from Old French burnir, burnish: see burnish. In form and sense the word overlaps burn (cf. burn, v. i., 4).
  5. apparently contr. of burthen or burden.
 

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