Difference between Afire and Burning

AFIRE vs BURNING: NOUN

A form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
A fire.
The act of burning something
Execution by fire
Execution by electricity
A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites.
A convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
Any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
Oxidation of iron by keeping it too long at a welding heat.
The act or process of consuming by fire.
In metal-working, the act or process of uniting metallic surfaces by fusing them together, or by running molten metal of the same kind between them.
In ceramics, the final firing, as for glazing, fixing the colors, or the like: used somewhat loosely.
A concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

Combust, Avid, Eager, Inflames, Ignited, On fire, Aflare, Lighted, Blazing, Lit, Burning, Flaming, Alight, Aflame, Ablaze

Painful, Fervent, Hot, Fueled, Electrocution, Lighted, Fiery, Combustion, Lit, Alight, Afire, Blazing, Aflame, Ablaze, Flaming

Comburent, Aglow, Combust, Avid, Eager, Ignited, Aflare, Lighted, Blazing, Lit, Burning, Flaming, Alight, Aflame, Ablaze

Fervid, Painful, Fervent, Hot, Fueled, Lighted, Fiery, Combustion, Lit, Alight, Afire, Blazing, Aflame, Ablaze, Flaming

The hot engine burning that shopper would also make the burning smell of rubber as in other cases.
Examples of symbolic speech include burning the American flag and burning draft cards during the Vietnam War.
Besides the fact that burning it releases harmful toxins into the air, burning cardboard can be dangerous.
They could confer later in private, but for the moment Quantrill felt that burning his cover meant burning a new friendship.
The altar is not for burning sacrifices, but rather for burning incense.
Perfect Substitute Wood burning pen instead of the wood burning soldering iron tool.
The major contributors to air pollution in India are household burning emissions, coal combustion, agricultural burning and transport.
Geophytes survive burning because the storage organs are below ground protected from burning.
Is the odor more like a burning plastic, burning hair, etc.
No permitwill be issued where burning would violate Oregon Administrative Rules governing open burning in the Rogue Basin Open Burning Control Area.