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🛡️ To protect from fire ♻️ To reverse burning
to unburn

to unburn

9.9
To remove the damage that fire has done to something
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈbɜrn/
translation icon : restaurar
  • He used a special technique to unburn the skin after the sunburn.

So paper burns, it never unburns.

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Examples

  • Clearly you don't unburn, you don't go back to making the candle from the air and the heat.

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  • Implies that paper can burn but not unburn, Implies that soup can cool but not get hotter.

  • The artist learned how to unburn the charcoal on the canvas to restore the original colors.

  • After using the cream, my skin felt soothed and unburned after days of sun exposure.

Antonyms

to burn
∞ 1.0

To be on fire or damage something with heat

How Restored

to restore
219 3.5
to unburn
9.9
repair
352 2.3
to retouch
8 4.2
to clean
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

unburn infinitive
unburned past
unburned past participle
unburning present participle
unburns third person singular

Morphology

unburn = burn (transparent) = un + burn

The prefix 'un-' expresses reversal/negation when attached to 'burn', giving the clear sense 'undo or remove burning', which is inferable.

Etymology

Unburn uses the prefix un- 'to reverse' with burn 'to be on fire'. Think of trying to 'undo' burn damage, so unburn means to remove or reverse the effects of burning, though you cannot always truly 'unburn' something that is already destroyed by fire.