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/ˈbɔːn//ˈbɔɹn/Definitions
To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
Example: Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.
To support, sustain, or endure.
To support, keep up, or maintain.
To press or impinge upon.
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Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
/ˈbɔːn//ˈbɔɹn/Definitions
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
Example: She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
Example: chili burn from eating hot peppers
The act of burning something with fire.
Example: They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
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To cause to be consumed by fire.
Example: He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
Example: He watched the house burn.
To overheat so as to make unusable.
Example: He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
Example: The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
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A stream.