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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | burning | Producing or having a painfully hot sensation |
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| 2 | burning | Intensely hot | |
| 3 | burning, ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid | Characterized by intense emotion | |
| 4 | burning, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, blazing, flaming, on fire | Lighted up by or as by fire or flame | |
| 5 | burning | Of immediate import | |
| 6 | burning | Consuming fuel | |
| NOUN | 1 | burning, combustion | The act of burning something |
| 2 | burning, burn | Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | |
| 3 | burning, combustion | A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | |
| 4 | burning, electrocution | Execution by electricity | |
| 5 | burning, burning at the stake | Execution by fire | |
| 6 | burning | A form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin |
| Sounds | ber'nihng |
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| Rhymes | abducting, abiding, abounding, and 2057 more rhymes in ihng... |
| Meaning | Producing or having a painfully hot sensation. |
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| Examples | "begged for water to soothe his burning throat" |
| Similar to | painful |
| Meaning | Intensely hot. |
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| Examples | "a burning fever"; "the burning sand" |
| Similar to | hot |
| Meaning | Characterized by intense emotion. |
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| Examples | "a burning enthusiasm" |
| Synonyms | ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| Similar to | passionate |
| Meaning | Lighted up by or as by fire or flame. |
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| Examples | "a burning cigarette" |
| Synonyms | ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, blazing, flaming, on fire |
| Similar to | lighted, lit |
| Meaning | Of immediate import. |
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| Examples | "burning issues of the day" |
| Similar to | important, of import |
| Meaning | Consuming fuel. Used in combination. |
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| Examples | "coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves" |
| Similar to | fueled |
| Meaning | The act of burning something. |
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| Examples | "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance" |
| Synonyms | combustion |
| Broader | change of integrity |
| Narrower | arson, incendiarism, fire-raising; ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation; incineration |
| Meaning | Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. |
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| Synonyms | burn |
| Broader | pain, hurting |
| Meaning | A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light. |
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| Synonyms | combustion |
| Broader | oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation |
| Narrower | deflagration; fire, flame, flaming; internal combustion |
| Meaning | Execution by electricity. |
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| Synonyms | electrocution |
| Broader | execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty |
| Meaning | Execution by fire. |
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| Synonyms | burning at the stake |
| Broader | execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty |
| Narrower | auto-da-fe |
| Meaning | A form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin. |
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| Broader | torture, torturing |
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