burn: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ horrific (esp. BrE), nasty, serious, severe, terrible
▪ minor, slight, superficial
▪ first-degree, second-degree, etc.
▪ chemical, cigarette
VERB + BURN
▪ get, suffer
▪ cause
▪ die from
▪ treat, treat sb for
BURN + NOUN
▪ mark
▪ wound
▪ injury
▪ burn victim (esp. AmE), burns victim (BrE)
▪ burn center (AmE), burns centre (BrE)
PHRASES
▪ 20%, 50%, etc. burns
▪ He was treated in the hospital for 60% burns.
PREPOSITION
▪ burn on
▪ a slight burn on the back of her hand
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
1 damage/injure by fire/heat
ADVERB
▪ badly, seriously, severely
▪ completely
▪ The car was found abandoned in the woods, completely burned out.
▪ partially
▪ easily
▪ fair skin that burns easily
▪ down, out
▪ The factory burned down last year.
PHRASES
▪ be burned alive
▪ be burned at the stake
▪ Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
▪ be burned to ashes, be burned to a cinder, be burned to a crisp
▪ The tower was struck by lightning and was burned to a cinder.
▪ be burned to death, burn to death
▪ Several people were burned to death.
▪ be burned to the ground
▪ The building was burned to the ground.
2 be on fire
ADVERB
▪ fiercely
▪ The fire was still burning fiercely.
▪ steadily
▪ slowly
▪ Fresh leaves will burn slowly with billows of smoke.
PHRASES
▪ burn out of control
3 produce light
ADVERB
▪ brightly
▪ Their torches burned brightly in the dark.
4 be filled with strong feeling
ADVERB
▪ fiercely
▪ Her eyes burned fiercely.
▪ slowly
▪ She could sense the anger burning slowly inside him.
PREPOSITION
▪ with
▪ He was burning with indignation.
Burn is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑acid, ↑ambition, ↑bonfire, ↑candle, ↑cheek, ↑chest, ↑cigar, ↑cigarette, ↑coal, ↑eye, ↑face, ↑fire, ↑flame, ↑flare, ↑furnace, ↑fury, ↑incense, ↑lamp, ↑lantern, ↑log, ↑lung, ↑mob, ↑muscle, ↑petrol, ↑rage, ↑skin, ↑sun, ↑tear, ↑throat, ↑torch, ↑wood
Burn is used with these nouns as the object: ↑calorie, ↑carbohydrate, ↑CD, ↑CD-ROM, ↑charcoal, ↑coal, ↑coke, ↑disc, ↑disk, ↑DVD, ↑fat, ↑file, ↑flag, ↑fuel, ↑hole, ↑incense, ↑lung, ↑mouth, ↑music, ↑oil, ↑remains, ↑skin, ↑throat, ↑toast, ↑waste, ↑wood