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burn
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /b?n/, enPR: bûrn
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??n/, enPR: bûn
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophone: Bern
Etymology 1
From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnan? (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renw- (compare Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”)), present stem from *b?rewh?-, *b?ru- (compare Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit ????? (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”)). More at brew.
Noun
burn (countable and uncountable, plural burns)
- 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
- The act of burning something with fire.
- They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
- (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
- (uncountable, Britain, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
- (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced (page 248)
- Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.
- 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced (page 248)
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- They have a good burn.
- (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
- (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- 2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory (page 529)
- On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]
- 2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory (page 529)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt)
- (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
- (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
- (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
- (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
- 1965, Amplified Bible, James 4:2
- You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
- (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- (transitive, slang) To betray.
- (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
- (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
- (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
- (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- 2011, Thomas H. Cook, Night Secrets
- He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.
- 2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1
- Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.
- 2011, Thomas H. Cook, Night Secrets
- (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
- 1979, John le Carré, Smiley's People
- "How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]
- 1979, John le Carré, Smiley's People
Derived terms
Related terms
- combust
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunn?, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brun?. Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian ?????? (a?biwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.
Noun
burn (plural burns)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 105:
- When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
Derived terms
- Burnmouth
Related terms
- bourn
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “burn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
Nyunga
Noun
burn
- wood
References
- 1886, C. F. Armstrong (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent
Scots
Etymology
Middle English bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”).
Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian ?????? (a?biwr, “fount”).
Noun
burn (plural burns)
- A small river.
References
“burn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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torment
English
Etymology
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/
Noun
torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)
- (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
- They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pain
Derived terms
- tormentous
Translations
Verb
torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)
- (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
Derived terms
- tormentor
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment (plural torments)
- torment (suffering, pain)
Descendants
- English: torment
Middle French
Alternative forms
- tourment
Etymology
From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (plural torments)
- torment; suffering; anguish
Old French
Alternative forms
- turment
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)
- torture
- (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment
Descendants
- Middle English: torment (borrowing)
- English: torment
- Middle French: torment, tourment
- French: tourment
References
- “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (nominative singular torments)
- suffering; torment
Descendants
- Catalan: turment
- Occitan: torment
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