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the body's loudest alarm — pain that means cells are screaming in real time
means To be on fire, to consume by fire, or to suffer the searing damage and pain that heat, friction, acid, or radiation inflicts on flesh.
from From Old English, where two closely related verbs tangled together — 'beornan,' to be on fire (intransitive), and 'bærnan,' to set on fire (transitive) — both rooted in the Germanic family and a cousin of words across the old Northern tongues. English eventually fused the pair into one word doing double duty: the thing that burns and the act of burning it. The metaphorical 'burn' — a cutting insult — is far younger slang, the idea being that a good zinger leaves a mark like a scorch.
- degrees lie
- third-degree burns often hurt least; nerves are gone
- calorie origin
- calories were literally defined by burning food samples
- slow burn
- oxidizing iron and burning wood are the same reaction
- insult lineage
- a verbal burn singes ego, not skin
- sun's job
- the sun burns four million tons of itself per second
camp fire — 2023 california wildfire that burned 153,336 acres in shasta county
dixie fire — 2021 california wildfire that burned 963,309 acres, largest single fire in state history
amazon rainforest fires — 2019 brazilian wildfires burned over 880,000 hectares in the amazon region