Definition of burning

"burning" in the noun sense

1. burning, combustion

the act of burning something

"the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance"

2. burn, burning

pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

3. combustion, burning

a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light

4. electrocution, burning

execution by electricity

5. burning, burning at the stake

execution by fire

6. burning

a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin

"burning" in the verb sense

1. burn, fire, burn down

destroy by fire

"They burned the house and his diaries"

2. burn, glow

shine intensely, as if with heat

"The coals were glowing in the dark"

"The candles were burning"

3. burn, combust

undergo combustion

"Maple wood burns well"

4. bite, sting, burn

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

"The sun burned his face"

5. burn, combust

cause to burn or combust

"The sun burned off the fog"

"We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

6. burn

feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion

"She was burning with anger"

"He was burning to try out his new skies"

7. burn, incinerate

cause to undergo combustion

"burn garbage"

"The car burns only Diesel oil"

8. burn

execute by tying to a stake and setting alight

"Witches were burned in Salem"

9. burn

spend (significant amounts of money

"He has money to burn"

10. burn

feel hot or painful

"My eyes are burning"

11. cauterize, cauterise, burn

burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

"The surgeon cauterized the wart"

12. sunburn, burn

get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

13. cut, burn

create by duplicating data

"cut a disk"

"burn a CD"

14. burn off, burn, burn up

use up (energy

"burn off calories through vigorous exercise"

15. burn

damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation

"The iron burnt a hole in my dress"

"burning" in the adjective sense

1. burning

of immediate import

"burning issues of the day"

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Quotations for burning

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! [ Longfellow ]

The burning soul, the burdened mind.
In books alone companions find. [ Mrs. Hale ]

One fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

With eyes that looked into the very soul -
Bright - and as black and burning as a coal. [ Byron ]

The ever-burning lamp of accumulated wisdom. [ G. W. Curtis ]

The fool runs away while his house is burning down. [ Proverb ]

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. [ George William Curtis ]

You sewed it with a red hot needle and a burning thread. [ Proverb ]

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. [ Carlyle ]

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]

God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. [ Sydney Smith ]

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer. [ Colton ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning glasses - to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. [ Swift ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. [ Bishop Horne ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

burning in Scrabble®

The word burning is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters burning:

BURNING
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

burning

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word burning

BURNING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In burning

BURNING
(90 = 40 + 50)
BURNING
(89 = 39 + 50)
BURNING
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burning in Words With Friends™

The word burning is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters burning:

BURNING
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

burning

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word burning

BURNING
(110 = 75 + 35)
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(104 = 69 + 35)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In burning

BURNING
(110 = 75 + 35)
BURNING
(104 = 69 + 35)
BURNING
(104 = 69 + 35)
BURNING
(104 = 69 + 35)
BURNING
(104 = 69 + 35)
BURNING
(98 = 63 + 35)
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Words within the letters of burning

2 letter words in burning (3 words)

3 letter words in burning (17 words)

4 letter words in burning (8 words)

5 letter words in burning (4 words)

6 letter words in burning (1 word)

7 letter words in burning (1 word)

burning + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence burning

Words that start with burning (2 words)

Words with burning in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving burning

Shorter words in burning

urn burn

in urning

urn urning

Longer words containing burning

afterburning

backburning

burnings

gasburning

nonburning

outburning

overburning

reburning

unburning sunburning

windburning

woodburning