How to pronounce “burn”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• A sensation resembling such an injury.
• The act of burning something with fire.
• (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
• (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
• (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
• [Verb]
• (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.
• (ambitransitive) To sunburn.
• (transitive) To consume, damage, 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 (hardsubs).
• (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, videography) 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).
• (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.
• (intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

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