burning
- noun
- /ˈbɜrnɪŋ/
- Offensive
- The victim endured a horrific burning torture that left permanent scars on her skin.
Examples
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Something pushed against the burning flesh.
Fiction book (1992) -
Smell of burning flesh.
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The odd burning patterns, the victims being burned on the inside but not the out.
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I also associate sex with the smell of burning flesh.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're talking about burning their skin, blinding their eyes.
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You never talked about the barracks or the lice or the bunks or the smell of burning flesh.
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He described the burning as a slow and agonizing experience that felt never-ending.
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Witnesses reported the burning of the prisoner with cigarettes as a barbaric form of punishment.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A sudden sense that people are talking about you, often when your name is said
- Informal
You feel that people are talking about you when you are not there
Compounds
- NSFW
A way of killing someone by tying them to a post and setting them on fire as punishment
- Specialized
A plant with white flowers that gives off a gas that can burn in hot weather
- NSFW
A period in Europe when many people accused of being witches are killed, often by burning at the stake
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Burning comes from the old verb burn, meaning 'to set on fire', and it can describe deliberate damage to skin by hot objects because those injuries are made by the same burning action.