quemar
burn ; set + Nombre + on fire ; torch ; ignite ; set + ablaze ; incinerate ; scorch ; sear ; singe ; scald.
In Italy, Mussoline was burning books and suppressing libraries with appalling regularity.
The second example relates to a bibliographical puzzle concerning the bowdlerized British version of William Styron's novel 'Set this house on fire'.
Alenxandria's library was torched and completely destroyed by the brutal Roman emperor Aurelian in A.D. 270.
Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
The day ended in a riot during which the town hall was set ablaze.
This is a project to incinerate an estimated 700, 000 tonnes of toxic sludge created as a byproduct of a century of steelmaking.
If badly affected, spots run together, and leaves appear scorched.
Searing meat is the process for caramelising the sugars present in meat and forming an aesthetic crust around its surface.
Soon Frank's shoulders baked, and he could feel the day's heat singeing his cheeks and forehead.
In the morning my shower started to splurt out boiling water, scalding my head so badly it has blistered.
alcohol de quemar
meths [meth, -USA]
My friend drank some meths and coke and he reckoned it was really great but I am inclined to think it is rather lethal.
fusible + quemarse
blow + a fuse
You could expect quite a shock - financially, that is - if you had to call in an electrician every time you blew a fuse.
más quemado que la pipa (de) un indio
completely burned-out
totally burned-out
The fact is that people who are completely burned-out on their work find that the only cure is to change what they do.
She's totally burned-out after the first year and now doesn't give a shit.
quemar completamente
burn out
The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was bombed and burnt out with the loss of 90 per cent of its stock.
quemar en la hoguera
burn + Nombre + at the stake
In days gone by, they'd have burned her at the stake.
quemar las naves
burn + Posesivo + bridges
burn + Posesivo + boats
She has burned her bridges in England so badly that the actress now has to leave the country altogether.
Expecting to go to America with her boyfriend, staff nurse Sally Chalmers burnt her boats and resigned her job only to be left behind!.
quemarse
go up in + flames
The title of the article is 'National library in Sarajevo destroyed; collections, archives go up in flames'.
quemarse completamente
go up in + smoke
She wrote a paper with the title 'Incendiary guilt: when your labels go up in smoke'.
quemarse la boca
burn + Posesivo + mouth
The prisoners pounced on the food like hungry beasts and, champing noisily, gulped down the soup greedily, hardly chewing the meat, and burning their mouths.
quemar totalmente
burn + Nombre + to the ground
burn + Nombre + to (a) cinder(s)
burn + Nombre + to ashes
I don't really understand how someone could put so much work into something only to burn it to the ground.
Then we just had to cross our fingers, because if a disease like foulbrood happens to infect your hive, you have to burn it to cinders.
Then set it on fire and burn it to ashes.
sin quemar
unburned
Canopy light penetration and overstorey tree density were measured in both burned and unburned forests.
uso de leña para la combustión
wood burning
If you get serious about wood burning, you must always think one full year ahead and buy this years wood for next year.
uso de leña para quemar
wood burning
If you get serious about wood burning, you must always think one full year ahead and buy this years wood for next year.
