OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 2771

burn

/bɜːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
combustionar • fogarear • foguerear • quemar
To cause to be consumed by fire.
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
On July 1, 1402,⁹⁵ when the Prince of Yen reached P’u-k’ou (in Kiangsu), Sheng Yung and his imperial troops attacked him and attempted to burn his boats.⁹⁶
quemar
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
quemar
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends burned copies to leave o…
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.