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burning
burning
I. burn‧ing1 /ˈbɜːnɪŋ $ ˈbɜːr-/ adjective [ONLY BEFORE NOUN] [Word Family: noun: burn, burner; adjective: burning, burnt; verb: burn; adverb: burning] 1. on fire: ▪ She was rescued from a burning building.
2. feeling very hot: ▪ Claudia put her hands to her burning face.
3. burning ambition/desire/need etc a burning ambition, desire, need etc is very strong: ▪ My burning ambition is to be world champion.
4. burning issue/question a burning issue or question is very important and urgent: ▪ Education has become a burning issue in this election.
5. written burning eyes look at you very hard or show very strong feeling
II. burning2 adverb [Word Family: noun: burn, burner; adjective: burning, burnt; verb: burn; adverb: burning] burning hot very hot
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a burning desire (=an extremely strong desire) ▪ She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave. a burning issue (=a very important and urgent issue) ▪ For country-dwellers, transport is a burning issue. a burning question (=an important one that needs dealing with) ▪ Little progress was made on the burning question of Africa’s debt. a burning sensation ▪ These chemicals can cause a burning sensation or rash. a burning/driving ambition (=a very strong ambition) ▪ She had a burning ambition to become a racing car driver. a lit/lighted/burning cigarette ▪ Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire. be burning with curiosity (=want to know about something very much) ▪ She was burning with curiosity about him, but was too polite to ask. burning/blazing/smoking wreckage ▪ He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage. sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hateliterary ▪ Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate. the blazing/burning sun ▪ Tourists trudge around in the blazing sun. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB still ▪ When she returned to the house, she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning. ▪ Fortunately, the old man was still burning paint off the greenhouse. ▪ Soon I arrived at the lime-kiln, which was still burning, although the workmen had all gone home. ▪ He always went to sleep with his still burning, so he got through a lot more than she did. ▪ The lamp outside the turkey-house was still burning to illuminate their way along the front drive and into the yard. ▪ It was still burning, but not towards the hayfield. ▪ And the lights were so bright that I could hardly bear it and my eyes are still burning. NOUN ambition ▪ His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money. ▪ Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition. ▪ You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage. ▪ But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time. ▪ It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed. ▪ He had no burning ambition to climb to the upper reaches of management in those early days, however. ▪ It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986. building ▪ The burning building behind him settled, and a triangular slice of wall slid out of place. ▪ The smell of burning buildings from the last flare-up still filled the air. ▪ Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did? ▪ She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour. ▪ As they roared towards the burning building, Bob Wallace hit the siren to let the occupants know help was coming. ▪ He's got a little kid in one hand and he's walking out of a burning building. bush ▪ Then there was no sound but the crackle of burning bushes. ▪ Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders, a burning bush. ▪ Millie's hair was close to the light over the table; it looked like a burning bush. car ▪ There they were tied up and pushed over a cliff in their burning car. ▪ Shippey, 47, was found stabbed to death in his burning car near Merstham last December. ▪ He contacted the fire service who hosed the burning car. ▪ Jury sees the spot where couple were left in a burning car. ▪ Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide. ▪ Police set up barricades to halt the marchers, who began burning cars. coal ▪ Of course you'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity. ▪ Thermal stations burning coal, oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust. ▪ And burning coal, of course, produces, carbon dioxide as well as sulphur dioxide. ▪ It was hung with pots and pans, and a huge range was slowly burning coal. ▪ After that, he ignored the hand and massaged Bobby's arm until he felt the sensation of burning coals. ▪ Startled, she turned to discover the dark-haired woman glaring at her through eyes that were like burning coals. desire ▪ The arguments were upsetting, but they gave them a burning desire to win - to prove officialdom wrong. house ▪ The room was lit by a red light from the burning houses behind it as Anne crunched over broken crockery and plaster. ▪ Old Mosse saved three people from a burning house in the Blitz but was a thieving rat otherwise. ▪ In 1955 an 11-year-old Sunbeam was presented with the Silver Cross for rescuing her three sisters from their burning house. ▪ And above the flames of burning houses rose up to drown out the moonlight and rush hot air into their streaming faces. issue ▪ Another burning issue is unfair dismissal. ▪ Quality, of design and typography rather than editorial matter, is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned. ▪ It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion. oil ▪ On some occasions, this marked cooling effect extended a distance of several hundred kilometres from the burning oil wells. ▪ Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside, and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air. ▪ The burning oil drum was a mystery, and Dunn refused to guess at the identity of the trucks. ▪ The coffee smelled like burning oil. pain ▪ His upper body felt curiously numb, but he could feel a burning pain deep within him when he breathed. ▪ Aching, tearing, stitching, burning pains. sensation ▪ But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk. ▪ If there is any pain or a burning sensation, tell the doctor, just in case you have a urinary infection. ▪ There was a burning sensation somewhere near the pit of his stomach. ▪ When it started again there was a new pain a sharp burning sensation in her crotch. ▪ She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face. sun ▪ On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead. ▪ As the day wore on the men stripped to the waist in the burning sun. ▪ The Marines suffer from burning sun and torrential rain; flares sent up at night emit an eerie glow. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be burning to do sth ▪ Hannah's burning to tell you her news. be burning up ▪ Although it was cold and the air was running out, she was burning up. ▪ In the on-line world, customers were burning up the lines. ▪ In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day. ▪ Think about the calories you are burning up - 200 for every 30 minute walk! be burning with rage/desire etc sb's ears are burning ▪ I bet your ears were burning - Tom and I were just talking about you. ▪ My ears are burning in the cold, but there's nothing I can do about it. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ burning cheeks ▪ The two boys were rescued from the burning apartment building. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Mrs Stocks passed on the onions, neatly sliced, and went to splash cold water over her burning eyes. ▪ That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight.
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