burning
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
burning
- Present participle of burn.
Adjective [edit]
burning (comparative more burning, superlative most burning)
- So hot as to seem to burn (something).
- the burning sun
- Feeling very hot.
- burning skin
- Feeling great passion.
- her burning heart
- Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
- burning zeal
- Dryden
- Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Translations [edit]
so hot as to seem to burn (something)
feeling very hot
feeling great passion
Noun [edit]
burning (plural burnings)
- The act by which something burns or is burned.
- 1828, Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
- It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance […]
- 1828, Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
- A fire.
- The burnings continued all day.