From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Burn \Burn\ (b[^u]rn), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Burned} (b[^u]rnd) or {Burnt} (b[^u]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Burning}.] [OE. bernen, brennen, verb (used with an object), early confused with beornen, birnen, verb (used without an object), AS. b[ae]rnan, bernan, verb (used with an object), birnan, verb (used without an object); akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw. br["a]nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.]
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. ''We'll burn his body in the holy place.'' --Shak.
2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up. --Shak.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ??ass as fire. --Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.
6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
{To burn}, {To burn together}, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.
{To burn a bowl} (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned.
{To burn daylight}, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --Shak.
{To burn one's fingers}, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.
{To burn out}, (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. ''Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?'' --Shak. (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen.
{To be burned out}, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.
{To burn up}, {To burn down}, to burn entirely.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Burning \Burn"ing\, noun The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
{Burning fluid}, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
{Burning glass}, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
{Burning house} (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. --Weale.
{Burning mirror}, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Syn: Combustion; fire; conflagration; flame; blaze.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
2. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
Like a young hound upon a burning scent. --Dryden.
{Burning bush} (Bot.), an ornamental shrub ({Euonymus atropurpureus}), bearing a crimson berry.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for water to soothe his burning throat"
2: intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand" [syn: {burning(a)}]
3: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent}, {burning(a)}, {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned}, {perfervid}, {torrid}]
4: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)}, {aflare(p)}, {alight(p)}, {blazing}, {flaming}, {on fire(p)}]
5: of immediate import; "burning issues of the day" [syn: {burning(a)}]
6: consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves"
noun
1: the act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance" [syn: {combustion}]
2: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: {burn}]
3: a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light [syn: {combustion}]
4: execution by electricity [syn: {electrocution}]
5: execution by fire [syn: {burning at the stake}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
383 Moby Thesaurus words for "burning": abandoned, ablaze, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, algetic, alight, angry, animal heat, approaching, approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, baking, beaming, beamy, beheading, bitter, blazing, blistering, blood heat, blushing, body heat, boiling, boiling over, branding, breathless, bright, bright and sunny, bright-hued, brilliant, brisk, broiling, burn, burning hot, burning pain, burning with excitement, calcination, calefacient, calefactive, calefactory, calidity, caloric, candent, candescent, canicular, capital punishment, carbonization, caustic, cauterant, cauterization, cautery, chafed, chafing, cheek-by-jowl, choleric, cineration, clamant, clamorous, close, coal heat, colorful, colory, comburent, combustion, committed, concremation, conflagrant, convected heat, cordial, cracking, cremation, crucifixion, crying, cupellation, curried, decapitation, decollation, dedicated, deep-colored, defenestration, deflagration, delirious, destructive distillation, devoted, devout, dire, distillation, distilling, drunk, earnest, ebullient, electric heat, electrocution, embittered, emphatic, enthusiastic, estral, estrous, estrual, excited, exciting, execution, exigent, exotic, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, festering, fever, fever heat, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, fire, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, flushing, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, funeral pile, fusillade, galled, garrote, gas heat, gassing, gay, gay-colored, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, gorgeous, grilling, guttering, hand-in-hand, hanging, hearty, heat, heated, heatedness, heating, hectic, hemlock, het up, high-colored, high-seasoned, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air heat, hot-blooded, hotness, hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hypothermia, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, impassioned, imperative, importunate, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in earnest, in flames, in heat, in must, in rut, incalescence, incandescent, incineration, induction heat, inflamed, instant, intense, intent, intent on, intimate, intoxicated, irradiative, irritated, judicial murder, keen, kindled, lamping, lapidation, light as day, lighted, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively, living, loyal, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, molecular heat, must, musty, near, near the mark, nearing, nearish, necktie party, nigh, nighish, nippy, oil heat, on fire, orient, overheated, overwarm, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, peppery, perfervid, piping hot, poisoning, propinque, provoking, proximal, proximate, pyre, pyretic, pyrolysis, racy, radiant, radiant heat, raging, rancorous, rankled, rankling, raw, red, red-hot, reduction to ashes, reeking, refining, resentful, resenting, resolute, rich, rich-colored, roasting, rutilant, rutilous, rutting, ruttish, rutty, scalding, scintillant, scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, seasoned, seething, self-immolation, sensitive, serious, sexually excited, shining, shiny, shooting, side-by-side, simmering, sincere, singeing, sizzling, sizzling hot, smart, smarting, smelting, smoking, smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solar heat, sore, sparking, spiced, spicy, spirited, splenetic, starbright, starlike, starry, steam heat, steaming, steamy, stewing, stimulating, sting, stinging, stirring, stoning, strangling, strangulation, streaming, sudorific, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, superheat, superheatedness, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, tangy, tender, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the stake, thermal radiation, thermogenesis, tingle, tingling, toasting, torrid, ultraviolet heat, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, urgent, urtication, vehement, vesication, vicinal, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, warm, warming, warmness, warmth, white-hot, with a kick, withering, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy
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