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say it: burn
burn is a verb and noun meaning "destroy by fire". It carries 20 recorded senses.
undergo combustion
“Maple wood burns well”
cause to burn or combust
“The sun burned off the fog”
“We combust coal and other fossil fuels”
feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
“She was burning with anger”
“He was burning to try out his new skies”
cause to undergo combustion
“burn garbage”
“The car burns only Diesel oil”
a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.