Difference between Glow and Burn

What is the difference between Glow and Burn?

Glow as a verb is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. while Burn as a verb is to be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.

Glow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. To radiate some emotional quality like light. To gaze especially passionately at something. To radiate thermal heat. To shine brightly and steadily. To sweat

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state of a glowing object. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

Example sentence: Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

Burn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.The act of burning something.Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.A stream.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.To become overheated so as to make unusable.To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.To sunburn.To accidentally touch a moving stone.To cause to be consumed by fire.To overheat so as to make unusable.To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.To betray.To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.To waste (time).To insult or defeat.In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.

Example sentence: Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

We hope you now know whether to use Glow or Burn in your sentence.

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