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burn

verb as in cause or feel stinging pain

Strongest match

verb as in be excited about; yearn for

verb as in cheat

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Fuel spilled by a tanker burns in the Cuyahoga River on August 25th.

There are just so many reasons not to pick up the drip torch and start a prescribed burn even though it’s the safe, smart thing to do.

Burn bosses in California can more easily be held liable than their peers in some other states if the wind comes up and their burn goes awry.

California, of course, uses aircraft—it has both its own fleet and can employ contractors—to mount full-court presses on fires, but the practice is certainly not limited to combating burns in the Golden State.

The battery, she alleged, exploded and left her with severe burns.

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Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.

Are sociopathic animals in while sociopathic people burn in hell?

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Soon, though, voices from off camera begin shouting for retribution, not justice, chanting “Burn this b**** down.”

In order to get the ghosts to glow, we had to do what was called a double burn.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

He couldn't sell them; he couldn't burn them; he was even compelled to insure them, to his intense disgust.

They used to declare that every unbaptised baby would go to Hell and burn for ever in fire and brimstone.

And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.

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On this page you'll find 184 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burn, such as: blaze, char, heat, ignite, incinerate, and light.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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