burning

adj

1. blazing, ablaze, raging, on fire, afire, fiery; flaming, aflame, smoking, ignited; very hot, boiling, scalding, scorching, sizzling; smoldering, simmering, parching; roasting, broiling, grilling, baking, toasting.

2. gleaming, agleam, glowing, aglow, glaring; very bright, lighted, alight, luminous, illuminated; radiant, brilliant, incandescent; shimmering, twinkling, flashing, flickering, glittering, aglitter, sparkling, fluttering.

3. sharp, acute, cutting, biting, stinging, piercing; singeing, searing, cauterizing; strong, pungent, poignant, reeking, acrid; caustic, corroding; painful, excruciating, racking, tormenting, agonizing; smarting, prickling, irritating.

4. desperate, violent, tempestuous; very angry, Inf. burned up, irate, wrathful, wroth, incensed; enraged, raging, infuriated, infuriate, furious; ranting, raving, vehement, fuming, seething; heated, worked up, flared up; vexed, irritated, piqued, chafed, galled, riled, nettled, agitated; offended, disturbed, perturbed, unquiet.

5. excited, exhilarated, enlivened, inspired, Inf. psyched or psyched up; animated, enthusiastic, eager; stimulated, aroused, Inf. hot, intensely desirous, intense; ardent, fervent, fervid, perfervid, impassioned, passionate, frenzied.

6. crucial, critical, acute; pivotal, climacteric, decisive, vital, essential; urgent, pressing, compelling, primary, important.

n

7. combustion, oxidation, fire, flame, blaze, conflagration; kindling, ignition, calefaction; incineration, cineration, cremation, incremation.

8. parching, roasting, scorching, torrefaction, scori-fication; singeing, cautery, cauterization, searing.

9.Both Ceramics. firing, baking.

10.(all of ores and metals) carbonization, calcination, cupellation.