Answer to "Effective insult, in slang" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BURN which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2019.

Effective insult, in slang crossword clue answers

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Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BURN	100 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Effective insult, in slang

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Crossword Answer definitions

BURN noun

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
3. The act of burning something with fire.
4. An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
7. Tobacco.
8. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
9. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
10. A disease in vegetables; brand.

BURN verb

1. To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. To overheat so as to make unusable.
4. To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
5. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
7. To cauterize.
8. To sunburn.
9. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
10. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
11. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
12. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
13. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
14. To betray.
15. To insult or defeat.
16. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
17. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
18. To accidentally touch a moving stone.
19. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
20. To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
21. (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
22. To discard.
23. To shoot someone with a firearm.

BURN noun

1. A stream.

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• Ruin, in the kitchen
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• "___ Notice"
• Hold one's feet to the fire?
• Put onto DVD
• Reduce to ashes