- [countable] an injury or a mark caused by fire, heat or acid
- to have minor/severe/third-degree burns
- She suffered serious burns but is expected to survive.
- He was treated in the hospital for 60% burns.
- burn to something He is recovering from burns to his face and hands.
- burn on something The toddler had severe chemical burns on her face from the shampoo.
- a slight burn on the back of her hand
- burn marks/injuries
- burn victims
- a specialist burns unit in a hospital
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- horrific
- nasty
- serious
- …
- get
- suffer
- cause
- …
- mark
- wound
- injury
- …
- 20%, 50%, etc. burns
- burn on
- the burn[singular] the feeling that you get in your muscles when you have done a lot of exercise
- Feel the burn!
- [countable] (Scottish English) a small river synonym streamTopics Geographyc2
injury
in muscles
river
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 Old English birnan ‘be on fire’ and bærnan ‘consume by fire’, both from the same Germanic base; related to German brennen. noun sense 3 Old English burna, burn(e), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bron and German Brunnen ‘well’.
Idioms
See burn in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee burn in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdo a slow burn
- (North American English, informal) to slowly get angry
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