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Your finger will not get burned; it will suffer the cumulative damage resulting from an unusually high quantity of unrelated high-speed molecule attacks.
I would call that 'burned'. If I call 'standing outside getting hit by lots of UV light' sunburned then it seems fair to call getting hit by lots of high speed water molecules burned too.