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burningadjective being on firea firefighter must be that rare soul who rushes into a burning house, not away from it ablaze, afire, aflame, alight(chiefly British), blazing, combusting, conflagrant, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed(also enflamed), kindled, lit(or lighted) aglow, flaring, flickering, glowing, live, smoldering(or smouldering)broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzlingburned(or burnt), charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singed choked, damped, dead, doused(also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated having a notably high temperaturea burning sauna seems like a welcome retreat after a day of shoveling snow ardent, boiling, broiling, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzlingheated, overheated, reheated, warmedsnug, toasty, warm, warmishfeverish, flushed, inflamed(also enflamed)canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappyblizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry(also wintery)chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheatedbenumbed, numb, shivering having or expressing great depth of feelingthe burning enthusiasm of that candidate's campaign workers ardent, blazing, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugaryhistrionic, melodramaticenthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealousenamored, infatuated, obsesseduninhibited, unreserved, unrestrainedfrenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated on fire cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional detached, dry, impersonal, objectivereserved, undemonstrative needing immediate attentiononce again the media ignored the burning issues and focused on fluff acute, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable burningverbpresent participle of burnto be on fire especially brightlyall evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn blazing, combusting, flaming, glowing catching, enkindlingdeflagrating, firing, igniting, kindlingflaring (up), lighting (up)flickering, guttering, waveringbaking, broiling, charring, cooking, melting, roasting, scorching, swelteringsmoldering(or smouldering), sparking, sputteringbeaming, brightening, radiatingbeating (down), flashing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glittering, scintillating, shimmering, shining, sparkling, twinkling going up in flames to set (something) on fireit is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink enkindling, firing, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, lighting, torching immolatingdeflagratingcharring, frizzling, scorchingbaking, broiling, cookingashing, cremating, incinerating, kilningsetting offbrightening, illuminating, illumining, irradiating, lightening, radiatingscalding, scathing, searingreigniting, rekindling, relightingbanking, stoking dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out) choking, smothering, suffocatingstamping (out)blackening, darkening, dimming, dulling, obscuring to be excited or emotionally stirred up with angerhe came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work boiling, foaming, fuming, raging, rankling, seething, sizzling, steaming, storming fulminating, ranting, ravingsmoldering(or smouldering)bristling, flaring (up), inflaming(also enflaming)chafing, fretting, stewingagitating, convulsing, roiling, shaking seeing red to shine with a bright harsh lightthe bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long beating, blazing, flaming, flaring, glaring beaming, glowing, radiatingflashing, glancing, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillating, shimmering, sparkling, twinklingbedazzling, blinding, dazing, dazzling to cause to believe what is untruehe's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on(chiefly British), hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking kidding, putting on, teasingbleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling doing a number on, leading one down the garden path(also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes undeceiving debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmaskingdisclosing, divulging, telling, unveilingdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning to make complete use ofheedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations absorbing, consuming, depleting, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, spending, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving before the 12th century |