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Burning vs Febrile - What's the difference?

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Burning is a related term of febrile.


As adjectives the difference between burning and febrile

is that burning is so hot as to seem to burn (something) while febrile is febrile, feverous, feverish.

As a verb burning

is .

As a noun burning

is the act by which something burns or is burned.

burning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Feeling very hot.
  • Feeling great passion.
  • Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • * 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
    • It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  • A fire.
    • The burnings continued all day.

    febrile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Feverish, or having a high temperature.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , isbn=0-553-29949-2 , date= , author=(Isaac Asimov) , title=(The Robots of Dawn) , url= , page=116 , chapter=22 , passage=Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?). }}
  • Full of nervous energy.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.}}

    Synonyms

    * (feverish): flushed, hot * (full of energy): energetic, excited

    Related terms

    * febrility * subfebrile