Phrase Hound found 119 phrases and 185 compound words that contain burn. The most common are listed below. Open burn in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 119
- burn outTo destroy by fire.
- money to burnMuch more money than one needs.
- burn upTo catch fire and burn until destroyed.
- burn offTo dissipate as the result of heat.
- burn downTo cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
- crash and burnTo fail utterly.
- slow burnSomething that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.
- feel the burnTo feel the burning sensation arising in a muscle being intensely exercised; often used as an exhortation to extend oneself in physical exercise.
- slash and burnRough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill.
- burn rubberTo accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.
- chemical burnA physical injury of the tissue caused by exposure to chemicals.
- flash burnA skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
- freezer burnA condition that occurs when frozen food has been damaged by dehydration and oxidation due to air reaching the food.
- third-degree burnA severe burn that destroys skin and underlying tissue and exposes nerve endings.
- powder burnA burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.
- first-degree burnA mild burn that causes redness of the skin but no blistering.
- burn phoneA cell phone purchased anonymously with cash, used for only a short time and then discarded so that the owner is untraceable.
- Big BurnThe Great Fire of 1910, a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that burned three million acres in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British Columbia, in the …
- Burn BridgeA village in Pannal and Burn Bridge parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate district (OS grid ref SE3051).
- second-degree burna burn, more severe than a first-degree burn, that blisters the skin
- burn awayTo remove or be removed by burning.
- burn noticeAn announcement of dismissal of an agent or source which an intelligence agency considers to have become unreliable.
- carpet burnA skin injury caused by friction with a carpet or similar surface.
- burn-clearingSlash and burn (technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop)
- back burnAlternative spelling of backburn: A controlled burn, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.
Compound words 185
- burnerSomeone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
- heartburnA burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
- sunburnA burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
- brimstoneThe sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
- BurnsideAny of various places in Scotland, or elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon world, named after the Scottish ones.
- burnieA small brook.
- burnyTending to burn.
- freeburnAn unconstrained fire.
- sideburnsingular of sideburns
- afterburnThe burning of further calories after the end of a period of vigorous exercise.