BURNED

To cause to be consumed by fire.

Example: "He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."

To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

Example: "He watched the house burn."

To overheat so as to make unusable.

Example: "He burned the toast. the blacksmith burned the steel."

To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

Example: "The grill was too hot and the steak burned."

To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

Example: "To burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block"

To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

Example: "She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."

To cauterize.

To sunburn.

Example: "She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."

To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

Example: "To burn the mouth with pepper"

To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

Example: "The child's forehead was burning with fever.  her cheeks burned with shame."

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

Example: "A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen"

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

Example: "Copper burns in chlorine."

To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a rom chip.

Example: "We’ll burn this program onto an eeprom one hour before the demo begins."

To betray.

Example: "The informant burned him."

To insult or defeat.

Example: "I just burned you again."

To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

Example: "The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

Example: "You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!"

To accidentally touch a moving stone.

In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

(of an element) to be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

To discard.

To shoot someone with a firearm.