burn
Meanings
- 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.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- 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.
- Tobacco.
- 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.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- To give off light; to be lit up.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- To cauterize.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- A large stream.
- A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
- A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
- A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
- A river in North Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Ure.
- A surname.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw- Proto-Indo-European *bʰrénuh₁e-? Proto-Germanic *brinnaną Proto-West Germanic *brinnan Old English biernan ▲ Proto-Germanic *brinnaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *brannijaną Proto-West Germanic *brannijan Old English bærnan Old Norse brennabor. Middle English brennen English burn From Late Middle English burne, birne, which arose via the metathesis of brinne, brynne, a variant of brennen. The East Midland forms were heavily influenced by Old Norse brinna, brenna (“to burn”), from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew. The late metathesis of East Midland brin- to birn- (and subsequently burn-) parallels the phonological development of bird and dirt from brid and drit. As this metathesized form became the Chancery Standard, it completely displaced the semantic functions and weak conjugation paradigm of the native Old English bærnan (weak), alongside the surviving remnants of byrnan (strong). Cognate with Cimbrian prönnan (“to burn”), Dutch barnen, branden (“to burn”), German brinnen (“to burn”), Luxembourgish brennen (“to burn”), Vilamovian brīn (“to burn”), Yiddish ברענען (brenen, “to burn”), Danish brænde (“to burn”), Faroese, Icelandic brenna (“to burn”), Norwegian Bokmål brenne (“to burn”), Norwegian Nynorsk brenna, brenne (“to burn”), Swedish brinna (“to burn”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (brinnan, “to burn”). See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.