burn

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

He burnt his hand in the fire.

A sensation resembling such an injury.

chili burn from eating hot peppers

The act of burning something with fire.

They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.

One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.

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).

To cause to be consumed by fire.

He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

They haue ſlayne my baylye⸝ and diſtroyed the houſes of my men⸝ banyſſhed and chaſed away myne offycers, and brent yͤ houſe in the worlde that I loued beſt.

To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

He watched the house burn.

Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

To overheat so as to make unusable.

He burned the toast.    The blacksmith burned the steel.

To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

to burn a hole;    to burn letters into a block

I posted myself near a place where they had been burning charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing.

A large stream.

This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.