burns
burnz
- n United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996)
- n celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)
- n pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- n a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- n an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- n a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- n damage inflicted by fire
- v destroy by fire
- v shine intensely, as if with heat
- v undergo combustion
Maple wood burns well - v cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- v cause to burn or combust
- v feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- v cause to undergo combustion
The car burns only Diesel oil - v burn at the stake
- v spend (significant amounts of money)
- v feel hot or painful
- v burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- v get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- v create by duplicating data
- v use up (energy)
- v burn with heat, fire, or radiation
- To fight severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remediestannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis.
- Of all bodily injuries, few are more traumatic than burns.
- Accidental burns among small children are common enough that some hospitals staff special wards to treat them.