burnable
可燃性,可燃,可燃烧,可燃烧的
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burned or burnt, burn·ing.
- : to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- : to contain a fire.
- : to feel heat or a physiologically similar sensation; feel pain from or as if from a fire: The wound burned and throbbed.
- : to give off light or to glow brightly: The lights in the house burned all night.
- : to give off heat or be hot: The pavement burned in the noon sun.
- : to produce pain or a stinging sensation similar to that of fire; cause to smart: The whiskey burned in his throat.
- : Games. to be extremely close to finding a concealed object or guessing an answer.
- : to feel extreme anger: When she said I was rude, I really burned.
- : to feel strong emotion or passion: He burned with desire.
- : Chemistry. to undergo combustion, either fast or slow; oxidize.to undergo fission or fusion.
- : to become charred or overcooked by heat: The steak burned around the edges.
Phrases
- burn at the stake
- burn down
- burned up
- burn in effigy
- burning question
- burn into
- burn off
- burn one's bridges
- burn oneself out
- burn one's fingers
- burn out
- burn rubber
- burn someone up
- burn the candle at both ends
- burn the midnight oil
- burn to a cinder
- burn up
- crash and burn
- ears are burning
- fiddle while Rome burns
- (burn) in effigy
- money burns a hole in one's pocket
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Fuel spilled by a tanker burns in the Cuyahoga River on August 25th.
There are just so many reasons not to pick up the drip torch and start a prescribed burn even though it’s the safe, smart thing to do.
Burn bosses in California can more easily be held liable than their peers in some other states if the wind comes up and their burn goes awry.
California, of course, uses aircraft—it has both its own fleet and can employ contractors—to mount full-court presses on fires, but the practice is certainly not limited to combating burns in the Golden State.
The battery, she alleged, exploded and left her with severe burns.
Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.
Are sociopathic animals in while sociopathic people burn in hell?
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Soon, though, voices from off camera begin shouting for retribution, not justice, chanting “Burn this b**** down.”
In order to get the ghosts to glow, we had to do what was called a double burn.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
He couldn't sell them; he couldn't burn them; he was even compelled to insure them, to his intense disgust.
They used to declare that every unbaptised baby would go to Hell and burn for ever in fire and brimstone.