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BURNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ruined by overcooking
Example:
she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits
Synonyms:
burned; burnt
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destroyed or badly damaged by fire
Example:
barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
Synonyms:
burned; burned-out; burned-over; burnt; burnt-out
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
Example:
burnt sienna
Synonyms:
burned; burnt
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb burn
Context examples:
I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Vinyl fluoride is extremely flammable and emits highly toxic hydrogen fluoride gas when burned.
(Monofluoroethene, NCI Thesaurus)
Analysis of stool samples helped to calculate calories excreted rather than burned or stored.
(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
However, when it came to measuring calories burned, they did not do a very good job, with the most accurate tracker off by 27 percent.
(Fitness Trackers Bad at Measuring Calories Burned, Study Says, VOA)
But interestingly, study participants lost even more body fat during the fat-restricted diet, as it resulted in a greater imbalance between the fat eaten and fat burned.
(Study finds cutting dietary fat reduces body fat more than cutting carbs, NIH)
Clear on his vision burned the manuscripts of two essays he had just completed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Also, leave no candles burning in a room unattended. (I have a friend whose candle somehow popped across a room and burned down her entire apartment.)
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil was poured upon it the ball burned fiercely.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When food is eaten, it is broken down into its nutritional components, and its calories are burned for energy.
(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
A new study reports how the mechanism works: When fossil fuels are burned, sulfuric and nitric acid eventually fall back to earth in rain and snow, causing acidification of the soil.
(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)
