burnt

[Burnt]

Destroyed or badly damaged by fire

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Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

Adjective S.
ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits"

Adjective S.
destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"

Adjective S.
hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks"

Adjective S.
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna"

Adjective
having undergone oxidation; "burned powder"

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of Burn

p. p. & a.
Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.


Burnt

Burnt , p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

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Usage Examples

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

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