Clues for the word "BURN"
We've had 138 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 206 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on June 24, 2026.
Definition of burn
- v. t. - To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
- v. t. - To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
- v. t. - To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
- v. t. - To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
- v. t. - To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
- v. t. - To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
- v. t. - To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
- v. i. - To be of fire; to flame.
- v. i. - To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
- v. i. - To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
- v. i. - To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
- v. i. - In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- n. - A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
- n. - The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
- n. - A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
- n. - A small stream.
Referring Clues
- Squander
- '69 Brando film
- Incinerate
- Scorch
- Make, as a CD
- Swindle, slangily
- Stay too long on the beach
- Create, as a CD
- Beachgoer's woe
- It's measured in degrees
- Seriously break the trust of, slangily
- *___ center
- Really overcook
- Combust
- Encode data onto a CD
- Make, as CDs
- Overcook badly
- Hold a candle to?
- Be in the sun too long
- Heat injury
- Set on fire
- Overcook
- Use up
- Set fire to
- Make, as a CD copy
- Overcook, as a roast
- Freezer mishap
- Overdo in the oven
- It's felt in gyms
- Sunbathing risk
- Become charred
- Lay out for too long
- Copy, as a CD
- Commit arson
- Cauterize
- Word with freezer or slow
- Freezer damage?
- Go up in smoke
- Use as fuel
- Blow a 5-Across
- Do more than tan
- Char
- Overdo at the beach
- Singe
- Dermatologist's concern
- Cheat, so to speak
- Make, as a copy of a CD
- Heat-related injury
- Seethe
- Sunbathe too long
- Smolder
- Oxidize
- Expend, as fuel
- Seriously overcook
- Make, as a DVD copy
- Cheat, in slang
- Scald, e.g.
- Set ablaze
- Assemble, as a music CD
- Ruin in the kitchen
- Overcook, and then some
- Catch fire
- 1970 Brando movie
- Torch
- Consume by fire
- Fire injury
- Overcook on the barbecue
- Destroy by fire
- Be on fire
- What Van Halen's "hot shoe" would do down the avenue, in "Panama"
- Machine Head "___ My Eyes"
- Scottish stream
- Copy (a CD)
- Small stream in Scotland
- See 23 across
- Be on fire - stream
- Hot water?
- Injury calling for running water?
- Be too hot, as water
- Go up in flames
- A narrow stream, but long
- Injury by degrees?
- Poet's endless stream
- Go up
- Injury caused by fire or running water
- Rocket engine's firing
- Scorch - stream
- Fire and water
- Effective insult
- Insult, in slang
- Swindle
- Be consumed, possibly
- Defraud, so to speak
- Cold running water is treatment for it
- The poet's endless stream
- Smart runner
- Blacken water in Scotland
- Poet denied sun and water
- Get very hot water
- Ignite
- Sunbather's risk
- Black vessel set alight
- What cordwood will do
- Back massage by Norse causes skin injury
- Which could make Bruno have passionate feelings
- Char in stream
- Running water can act like acid!
- Undergo combustion
- Have a hot desire
- Deplete
- Overdo on the grill
- Overcook considerably
- Overdo on the hibachi
- "Sick insult, dude!"
- Effective insult, in slang
- Well-delivered insult
- "Sick" insult
- Cook for too long
- Blaze
- Be angry
- Overcook on the grill
- Hot water?
- Severely overcook
- Terminate from an agency, in spy lingo
- Injury calling for running water?
- "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues
- Cook way past well-done
- Cook for too long, say
- Cook too long
- Insult
- What a freezer can do, paradoxically
- What candles do after they're 22-Across
- Injury by degrees?
- Unwanted beach souvenir
- Cutting insult
- Waste
- Get too much sun
- Aloe target
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - June 24, 2026
- Daily American - April 13, 2026
- LA Times - October 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 17, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2024
- Daily American - September 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2024
- LA Times - August 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 23, 2024
- LA Times - June 21, 2024
- LA Times - April 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2024
- New York Times - April 19, 2024
- LA Times - April 15, 2024
- Daily American - April 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2023
- Family Time - November 06, 2023
- New York Times - November 02, 2023
- USA Today - September 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 19, 2023
- USA Today - July 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 07, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 17, 2023
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