burning

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/ˈbɝnɪŋ/

adj 5noun 4

Collocations

ADJ.

bright, next

The bright burning flames from the fireplace lit up the entire living room.

VERB + BURNING

bridges, fire, keep, like, rescued, smell

The firefighters rescued people from the burning building before the roof collapsed.

BURNING + NOUN

candle, chances, mother, pain, road, sun

The burning sun beat down on us as we walked across the desert.

PREP.

around, from, in, out, up

The house was burning down when the fire department finally arrived.

ADV.

brightly, furiously

The fire was burning brightly through the darkness of the forest.

Definitions

adj

So hot as to seem to burn (something).

the burning sun

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

Feeling very hot.

burning skin

Feeling great passion.

her burning heart

Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.

burning zeal

a burning passion

Being keenly discussed.

a burning question; a burning issue

noun

The act by which something burns or is burned.

It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance[…]

The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.

A fire.

The burnings continued all day.

The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), which usually should be available on the blo

A fiery pain.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of burning something

combustion

noun — execution by electricity

electrocution

noun — a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give he

combustion

noun — pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

burn

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

book burning

A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.

hydrogen burning

The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of less than 1.2 solar mass, in which hydrogen is converted to helium, deuterium and some lithium.

carbon burning

The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements.

oxygen burning

The nucleosynthesis process, subsequent to carbon burning, in which neon disintegrates to oxygen which subsequently fuses to form silicon, phosphorus sulfur and other elements of atomic number up to 40.

are your ears burning

Asked of somebody who was not present but was the topic of discussion.

Are your ears burning? We were just talking about you.

Example Bank

the burning sun

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The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

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Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around / Trying to smile, but the air is so heavy and dry

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It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance[…]

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The suspect is the 21-year-old son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff’s deputy and may have been influenced by “black metal” music and its “associated history with church burnings,” the state fire marshal

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