What's The Definition Of Burning?
[n] the act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance"
[n] execution by fire
[n] execution by electricity
[n] a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
[n] pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
[adj] 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"
[adj] consuming fuel; used in combination; "coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves"
[adj] producing or having a painfully hot sensation; "begged for water to soothe his burning throat"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Burning: ablaze(p) |
afire(p) |
aflame(p) |
aflare(p) |
alight(p) |
blazing |
burn |
burning at the stake |
combustion |
combustion |
electrocution |
flaming |
fueled |
lighted |
lit |
on fire(p) |
painful
Related Terms | Find terms related to 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
See Also | arson |
auto-da-fe |
capital punishment |
change of integrity |
death penalty |
executing |
execution |
fire |
fire-raising |
firing |
flame |
flaming |
hurting |
ignition |
incendiarism |
incineration |
inflammation |
internal combustion |
kindling |
lighting |
oxidation |
oxidisation |
oxidization |
pain
Burning In Webster's Dictionary
\Burn"ing\, a.
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.
\Burn"ing\, n.
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.
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