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BURNS

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

BURNS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

BURNS root BURN-s

Word family

BURN 1 BORN 1 BURNING-ing 5 BURNED-ed 3 BURNT-t 2 BRENT 2 YBRENT 3

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BURNINGS 11 BURNINGLY 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
    • She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
    • He burnt his hand in the fire.
  2. countableuncountableA sensation resembling such an injury.
    • chili burn from eating hot peppers
  3. countableuncountableThe act of burning something with fire.
    • They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
  4. countableslanguncountableAn intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
  5. countableslanguncountableAn effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
  6. countableuncountablePhysical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
    • One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
  7. UKslanguncountableTobacco.
  8. countableuncountableThe writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
  9. countableuncountableThe operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
    • They have a good burn.
  10. uncountableA disease in vegetables; brand.
  11. countableuncountableThe firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
  12. ScotlandA large stream.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cause to be consumed by fire.
    • He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
  2. intransitiveTo be consumed by fire, or in flames.
    • He watched the house burn.
  3. transitiveTo overheat so as to make unusable.
    • He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
  4. intransitiveTo become overheated to the point of being unusable.
    • The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
  5. transitiveTo make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
    • to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
  6. intransitiveTo give off light; to be lit up.
  7. transitiveTo injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
    • She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
  8. transitiveTo cauterize.
  9. ambitransitiveTo sunburn.
    • She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
  10. transitiveTo consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
    • to burn the mouth with pepper
  11. intransitiveTo be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
    • The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
  12. transitiveTo cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
    • to burn iron in oxygen
    • A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
  13. datedTo combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
    • Copper burns in chlorine.
  14. transitiveTo write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
    • We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
  15. broadlytransitiveTo render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
    • My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
  16. slangtransitiveTo betray.
    • The informant burned him.
  17. slangtransitiveTo insult or defeat.
    • I just burned you again.
  18. transitiveTo waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
    • We have an hour to burn.
    • The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
  19. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
    • You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!
  20. intransitiveTo accidentally touch a moving stone.
  21. transitiveIn pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
  22. To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).
  23. intransitiveTo be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
  24. intransitiveslangTo discard.
  25. slangtransitiveTo shoot someone with a firearm.
  26. transitiveTo compromise (an agent's cover story).
  27. transitiveTo blackmail.
  28. USintransitiveslangTo desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).