This tyrant fever burns me up.
Shak.

This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden.

When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. -- To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. -- To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" Shak. -- To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

Your meat doth burn, quoth I.
Shak.

Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?
Luke xxiv. 32.

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water.
Shak.

Burning with high hope.
Byron.

The groan still deepens, and the combat burns.
Pope.

The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Milton.

To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. -- To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.