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(v)
(transitive) To expend energy resulting from metabolizing food.
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(transitive) To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
To burn; to catch fire.
(intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
(transitive) To destroy by burning.
(n)
A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
(intransitive) To emit heat and light without a flame.
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.
A light, brown-like colour.
a burned place or area
(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
(transitive) To burn slightly.
To burn with hot liquid.
(adj)
Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
On fire with visible flames.
(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
(chemistry) The act or process of burning.
(transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
A piece of clothing for warmth via insulation of body heat.
Solid remains of a fire.
A sudden bright light.
The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
(transitive) To eat.
A slashing action or motion:
A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
Of, pertaining to or caused by rotation.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
(transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
(transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
(transitive) To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
A chamber acting as the furnace in a jet engine or turbine engine, where intense combustion is induced.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
(chemistry) Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
(pathology) A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
(uncountable) the practice of making one or more copies
The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
(figurative) Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
(transitive, informal) To record.
(music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
The act of storing sound, video, etc., in a permanent medium.
That has been fixed into a physical medium (for example, a book, compact disc or videotape).
An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.
(transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
(Scots law, property law, historical) Land held in feudal tenure.
Paid for in advance.
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
(games) A game for a small child in which one covers one's face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo!" or "Peekaboo!".
A surname
A federal city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton.
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Dietary fibre.
(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
(transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
(intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
US spelling of pyrolyse. [(intransitive, chemistry) To undergo pyrolysis.]
Senses relating to curliness.