adj.

1. Marked by flames or intense heat: a burning sun.
2. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate: a burning desire for justice.
3. Of immediate import; urgent: “the issues that seem so burning in Washington” (John F. Kennedy).

burningly burn'ing·ly adv.

adjective

1. On fire: ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, conflagrant, fiery, flaming. Idioms: in a blaze, in flames. See hot/cold/lukewarm.
2. Marked by much heat: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See hot/cold/lukewarm.
3. Characterized by intense emotion and activity: fervid, fevered, feverish, heated, hectic. See excite/bore/interest, feelings, hot/cold/lukewarm.
4. Fired with intense feeling: ardent, blazing, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. See feelings.
5. Compelling immediate attention: crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, urgent. See big/small/amount.

adj

Definition: blazing, flashing
Antonyms: cold, cool

adj

Definition: fervent, excited
Antonyms: apathetic, cold, cool, unexcited, unimportant

adj

Definition: important
Antonyms: unimportant

adj

Definition: stinging
Antonyms: cooling, soothing

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The flame cutting of metal plates to a desired shape.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Fosdick

Common misspelling(s) of burning

• buring

burning crusade	corn burning stoves
nero burning rom	rangers apprentice the burning bridge