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1 (of feelings, etc.) very strong; extreme:
a burning desire to win * He's always had a burning ambition to start his own business.
2 a ~ issue / question a very important and urgent problem:
one of the burning issues of the day
3 (of pain, etc.) very strong and giving a feeling of burning
4 very hot; looking and feeling very hot:
the burning sun * her burning face
5 ~ eyes (literary) eyes that seem to be staring at you very hard
adverb (burning hot) very hot
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for burning is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is burning a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, burning is tagged as adjective.
Does burning appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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