to burn
- verb
- /bɜrn/
- NSFW
- You'll rue the day you burned me alive for being a witch.
- burned at the stake
- burned alive
- burned to death
And they were basically burned at the stake, you know.
- And they were basically burned at the stake, you know.
- And the town is literally trying to burn you alive.
- And another Sufi Mystic whose name escapes me right now, who was burned for saying I am God.
- And I think this country loves the witch hunt and burn the witch.
- Two of your men got hung from a bridge, yes and burnt alive.
Examples
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And the town is literally trying to burn you alive.
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They burned that witch.
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May he burn in hell.
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And they were basically burned at the stake, you know.
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I watched my dad burn to death.
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All of that was done when the library was burned by the priests and the soldiers.
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I fear only my sins... for if I should be burned to death, it would be due only to them.
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My family was burnt and crucified while they were still alive.
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He was tried for heresy and burned at the stake.
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He was tried for heresy and burned at the stake.
Synonyms
To put someone to death as a legal punishment
To set fire to something on purpose
To make something start burning
To kill someone as a legal punishment
To be completely destroyed by fire
To tie a person to a stake and burn them as punishment or to strongly criticize them in public
To burn until it turns to ash
To make something start burning
To make something start burning
To make something start burning
Antonyms
Idioms
- NSFW
To tie a person to a stake and burn them as punishment or to strongly criticize them in public
- Informal
To have a strong burning feeling in the muscles during hard exercise
- Informal
To work late at night and early in the morning so you become very tired
Phrasal Verbs
Stop working, especially things like lights or fuses, because they get too hot from too much use
Compounds
- Specialized
A very serious injury that destroys all skin layers can cause numbness and needs medical treatment
- Specialized
A mild injury to the top layer of the skin that causes redness and pain without blisters
An injury caused when electricity passes through the body and damages skin or tissue
Surface Forms
Etymology
Burn comes from the old English bærnan meaning 'to set on fire', and in history people were punished by being 'burned' at the stake, so the word kept the meaning of killing by fire.