"burn one's fingers" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-burn one's fingers.ogg Forms: burns one's fingers [present, singular, third-person], burning one's fingers [participle, present], burned one's fingers [participle, past], burned one's fingers [past], burnt one's fingers [participle, past], burnt one's fingers [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|burn<,,:burnt> one's fingers}} burn one's fingers (third-person singular simple present burns one's fingers, present participle burning one's fingers, simple past and past participle burned one's fingers or burnt one's fingers)
  1. (idiomatic) To harm oneself; to suffer consequences of one's actions. Tags: idiomatic Translations (harm oneself): polttaa sormensa (Finnish), polttaa näppinsä (Finnish), se tirer une balle dans le pied (French), обжига́ться (obžigátʹsja) (Russian), обже́чься (obžéčʹsja) (Russian), చేతులు కాల్చుకొను (cētulu kālcukonu) (Telugu)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "harm oneself",
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