English

Pronunciation

• bû(r)n, /bɜː(r)n/, /b3:(r)n/

  Homophones: Bern

  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)n

Intransitive verb

burn, past and past participle burned or burnt

1. To be consumed by fire
2. To feel hot due to embarrassment

   Her cheeks burned with shame.

Translations

• Breton: deviñ (1), leskiñ (1)
• Chinese: 烧 (shāo) (1)
• Dutch: branden (1)
• Finnish: palaa (1)
• French: brûler (1)
• German: brennen (1)
• Spanish: quemar
•  : kombustar , brular
• Indonesian: membakar (1)
• Japanese: 燃やす (もやす , moyasu) (1)
• Korean: 타다 (ta-da); Hanja: 연소하다 (yeonso-hada)
• Polish: palić (1)
• Russian: гореть /gor'et'/
• Swedish: brinna (1,2)

Transitive verb

burn, past and past participle burned or burnt

1. To cause to be consumed by fire
2. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals
3. To betray

   The informant burned him.

4. To write data to a compact disc
5. To waste (time)

   We have an hour to burn.

6. (slang) To insult badly, leaving no possible comeback.

   I just burned you again.

7. (cards) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair

Translations

• Finnish: polttaa (1-2, 4)
• French: brûler (1,2)
• German: verbrennen (1, 2), brennen (4)
• Swedish: bränna (1,4)

Noun

burn

1. A physical injury caused by heat or caustic chemicals
2. The act of burning something.

   They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

3. A small river

Translations

• German: Brandwunde f (1), Verbrennung f (2), Bach m (3), Gefrierbrand m (4)
• Russian: ожог /oZog/ (1)
• Swedish: brännskada (1), brännmärke (1), förbränning (2), köldskada (4)

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