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Plural of burn

regular plural

The plural of burn is burns.

Forms of burn

Singularburn /bɜːn/
Pluralburns /bɜːnz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Burns in a sentence

  • She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
  • Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 248
  • After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease.From the entry self-cleaning
  • When the ambulance doors opened, doctors were confronted with six moulaged clowns, each writhing in pain from impressive fake acid burns.From the entry moulaged
  • I debated childproofing my house, but decided against, on the basis that any scars or burns would serve as object lessons in restraint.From the entry childproof

Meaning of burn

  1. noun A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
  2. noun A mark left behind by a burn; a scorch or scar caused by a burn.
  3. noun An abrasion resembling a burn.

Full definition of burn

Questions about the plural of burn

What is the plural of burn?
The plural of burn is burns.
Is burn countable?
Burn is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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