Of fire: To destroy, consume (any combustible object). Of persons: To cause to be destroyed or consumed by fire; to set on fire, commit to the…

transitive. To destroy, torture, or injure by burning.

transitive. To burn up.

transitive. To consume with fire, burn; to set fire to (e.g. gorse, etc., soot in a chimney); to singe, scorch; locally, to singe (a hog), (in…

With adverbs or complement phrases. to burn up: to consume entirely by burning; figurative, to irritate, to upset, to enrage (U.S. slang.); also (U.S.…

to torture or destroy by burning.

transitive. To burn up; to consume or destroy by burning.

transitive. To burn, consume with fire; to cauterize (a sore). Obsolete.

transitive. To burn, consume by fire. Obsolete.

transitive. To burn up, consume with fire; to calcine. (Now only jocular or affected.)

transitive. To burn up, consume by fire.

To destroy or disintegrate with fire. Obsolete.

To burn, set on fire, consume with flames. Also figurative.

transitive. To set on fire, burn up.

intransitive. To burst into flame; to deflagrate, v.

transitive. To burn insufficiently.