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11 VERB If you burn or get burned in the sun, the sun makes your skin become red and sore. □ [V ] Build up your tan slowly and don't allow your skin to burn. □ [V n] Summer sun can burn fair skin in minutes.

12 VERB If a part of your body burns or if something burns it, it has a painful, hot, or stinging feeling. □ [V ] My eyes burn from staring at the needle. □ [V + with ] His face was burning with cold. □ [V n] …delicious Indian recipes which won't burn your throat.

13 VERB To burn a CD-ROM means to write or copy data onto it. [COMPUTING ] □ [V n] You can use this software to burn custom compilations of your favorite tunes.

14 → see also burning

15to burn the candle at both ends → see candle

16to get your fingers burned → see finger

17to burn something to the ground → see ground

18to burn the midnight oil → see midnight

19to have money to burn → see money

▸  burn down PHRASAL VERB If a building burns down or if someone burns it down , it is completely destroyed by fire. □ [V P ] Six months after Bud died, the house burned down. □ [V P n] Anarchists burnt down a restaurant. [Also V n P ]

▸  burn off PHRASAL VERB If someone burns off energy, they use it. □ [V P n] This will improve your performance and help you burn off calories. [Also V n P ]

▸  burn out

1 PHRASAL VERB If a fire burns itself out , it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn. □ [V pron-refl P ] Fire officials let the fire burn itself out.

2 → see also burnout , burnt-out

▸  burn up

1 PHRASAL VERB If something burns up or if fire burns it up , it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat. □ [V P ] The satellite re-entered the atmosphere and burned up. □ [V P n] Fires have burned up 180,000 acres of timber. [Also V n P ]

2 PHRASAL VERB If something burns up fuel or energy, it uses it. □ [V P n] Brisk walking burns up more calories than slow jogging. [Also V n P ] COLLOCATIONS burn VERB 2

burn+ adverb : brightly, fiercely NOUN 6

adjective + burn : horrific, serious, severe; minor

verb + burn : suffer

bu rned-ou t → see burnt-out

burn|er /bɜː ^r nə ^r / (burners )

1 N‑COUNT A burner is a device which produces heat or a flame, especially as part of a cooker, stove, or heater. □  He put the frying pan on the gas burner.

2 → see also back burner , front burner

burn|ing /bɜː ^r n I ŋ/

1 ADJ You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot. □  …the burning desert of Central Asia. ● ADV [ADV adj] Burning is also an adverb. □  He touched the boy's forehead. It was burning hot.

2 ADJ [ADJ n] If you have a burning interest in something or a burning desire to do something, you are extremely interested in it or want to do it very much. □  I had a burning ambition to become a journalist. □  She had a burning desire to wreak revenge.

3 ADJ [ADJ n] A burning issue or question is a very important or urgent one that people feel very strongly about. □  The burning question is: whose taxes should be raised?

bur|nish /bɜː ^r n I ʃ/ (burnishes , burnishing , burnished ) VERB To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image. [WRITTEN ] □ [V n] It was a move that has burnished Mr Hu's populist credentials.

bur|nished /bɜː ^r n I ʃt/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth. [LITERARY ] □  The clouds glowed like burnished gold.

burn|out /bɜː ^r naʊt/ also burn-out N‑UNCOUNT If someone suffers burnout , they exhaust themselves at an early stage in their life or career because they have achieved too much too quickly. [INFORMAL ]