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flash-burn

flash-burn is the alternative form of flash burn.

Meaning of flash burn

Noun

flash burn (countable and uncountable, plural flash burns)

  1. A skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
    • The greatest number of radiation injuries was probably due to the ultra-violet rays which have a wave length slightly shorter than visible light and which caused flash burn comparable to severe sunburn.1946, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Engineer District, page 20

Forms of flash-burn

pluralflash-burns

Questions about flash-burn

What is flash-burn the alternative form of?
Flash-burn is the alternative form of flash burn.

Words near flash-burn in the dictionary

  1. flash-balls
  2. flash-bang
  3. flash-banged
  4. flash-banging
  5. flash-bangs
  6. flash-burn
  7. flash-burns
  8. flash-forward
  9. flash-forwarded
  10. flash-forwarding
  11. flash-forwards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flash-burn (page history and authors); flash burn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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