A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
chili burn from eating hot peppers
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.
To cause to be consumed by fire.
A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
From Middle English bernen (collateral form of brennen), from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-E...
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He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
To overheat so as to make unusable.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.