Antonyms for burn
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1. burn

   To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.

   Antonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue

   Synonyms:
   blaze, brand, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

   Preposition:
   To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burn

   Antonyms:
   extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale

   Synonyms:
   ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate

Matched Categories

1. • Ache
   • Burn
   • Change Integrity
   • Change State
   • Consume
   • Create
   • Discolor
   • Feel
   • Hyperpigmentation
   • Injury
   • Shine
   • Treat
   • Waste

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burn, burningnoun

   pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

   Synonyms:
   burn mark, tan, combustion, electrocution, burning at the stake, sunburn, suntan, burning

2. tan, suntan, sunburn, burnnoun

   a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun

   Synonyms:
   burning, topaz, erythema solare, tangent, burn mark, sunburn, suntan, tan

3. burnnoun

   an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation

   Synonyms:
   tan, suntan, burning, burn mark, sunburn

4. burn, burn marknoun

   a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)

   Synonyms:
   tan, suntan, burning, burn mark, sunburn

5. burnverb

   damage inflicted by fire

   Synonyms:
   tan, suntan, burning, burn mark, sunburn

6. burn, fire, burn downverb

   destroy by fire

   "They burned the house and his diaries"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, evoke, bite, sack, give the axe, dismiss, go off, go up, enkindle, give the sack, cut, glow, elicit, burn up, terminate, fire, combust, arouse, give notice, open fire, displace, sting, send away, raise, sunburn, provoke, can, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, discharge, burn off, fuel, force out, cauterise

7. burn, glowverb

   shine intensely, as if with heat

   "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"

   Synonyms:
   shine, beam, burn up, radiate, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, burn off, bite, cauterize, glow, cauterise, fire

8. burn, combustverb

   undergo combustion

   "Maple wood burns well"

   Synonyms:
   throw a fit, fly off the handle, catch fire, take fire, ignite, flip one's wig, hit the roof, burn up, blow up, lose one's temper, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, blow a fuse, combust, erupt, hit the ceiling, burn down, conflagrate, go ballistic, burn off, bite, cauterize, blow one's stack, have kittens, flip one's lid, glow, cauterise, fire, have a fit

9. bite, sting, burnverb

   cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

   "The sun burned his face"

   Synonyms:
   stick, burn down, seize with teeth, prick, burn up, cut, twinge, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn off, bite, cauterize, glow, cauterise, fire

10. burn, combustverb

    cause to burn or combust

    "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

    Synonyms:
    throw a fit, fly off the handle, catch fire, take fire, ignite, flip one's wig, hit the roof, burn up, blow up, lose one's temper, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, blow a fuse, combust, erupt, hit the ceiling, burn down, conflagrate, go ballistic, burn off, bite, cauterize, blow one's stack, have kittens, flip one's lid, glow, cauterise, fire, have a fit

11. burnverb

    feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion

    "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

12. burn, incinerateverb

    cause to undergo combustion

    "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

13. burnverb

    burn at the stake

    "Witches were burned in Salem"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

14. burnverb

    spend (significant amounts of money)

    "He has money to burn"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

15. burnverb

    feel hot or painful

    "My eyes are burning"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

16. cauterize, cauterise, burnverb

    burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

    "The surgeon cauterized the wart"

    Synonyms:
    cauterize, burn up, burn down, burn off, sting, fire, combust, cut, sunburn, incinerate, bite, glow, cauterise, callous

17. sunburn, burnverb

    get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

18. cut, burnverb

    create by duplicating data

    "cut a disk"; "burn a CD"

    Synonyms:
    veer, bring down, snub, bite, turn off, edit out, cut, burn up, rationalize, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, slue, glow, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, combust, shorten, cut off, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, sting, contract, foreshorten, dilute, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, tailor, burn down, cauterize, incinerate, turn out, fire, disregard, burn off, issue, cauterise, cut back, abbreviate, trend, sunburn

19. burn off, burn, burn upverb

    use up (energy)

    "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"

    Synonyms:
    flare, go up, burn up, cut, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn down, flame up, burn off, bite, cauterize, blaze up, glow, cauterise, fire

20. burnverb

    burn with heat, fire, or radiation

    "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"

    Synonyms:
    sting, burn down, burn off, cauterise, fire, burn up, cauterize, glow, incinerate, sunburn, combust, cut, bite

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1. burnnoun

   Synonyms:
   ambustion

2. burnverb

   Synonyms:
   scorch, scald, singe, char, sear, cauterize, brand, consume, incinerate, cremate, incremate

How to use burn in a sentence?

1. Prem Rawat:

   There is a great lamp within you, and the rays of that lamp are your life. In these little lamps outside, the wick burns oil and then burns out. The lamp within does not burn anything, but gives bliss.

2. Daniel Gielchinsky:

   They are essentially doing a reorganization outside of bankruptcy court, slow the cash burn is the name of the game for the next 6 to 12 months and allow the company to pivot into a profitable position.

3. New York:

   Today...( the authors) assert, democracy's death is a slow burn, and it's already under way, thankfully, they also offer a way out.

4. Tom Stoppard:

   We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

5. Greg Girard:

   The places that stuck out were the meat factories, there were pig carcasses laying splayed out on the floor ; they'd burn the hair off with a blowtorch, it was all pretty open and of course there were no health laws governing the place.

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