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burnlike

burnlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a burn.

Adjective

burnlike (comparative more burnlike, superlative most burnlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a burn.
    • What is happening to cause these burnlike skin lesions?2008 January 22, C. Claiborne Ray, “Skin as a Battlefield”, in New York Times

Forms of burnlike

comparativemore burnlike
superlativemost burnlike

Origin of burnlike

From burn + -like.

Questions about burnlike

What does burnlike mean?
Burnlike means resembling or characteristic of a burn.
What part of speech is burnlike?
Burnlike is an adjective.

Words near burnlike in the dictionary

  1. Burniston
  2. Burnistons
  3. burnlet
  4. burnlets
  5. Burnley
  6. burnlike
  7. Burnmouth
  8. burnoff
  9. burnoffs
  10. Burnomania
  11. burnoose

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