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BURNT
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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:
If the growth can't be cut out through surgery, it may be burnt away with radiation or poisoned by chemotherapy.
(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The eyes were large and brown and lustrous, the mouth sweet and sensitive, and the face itself a delicate oval, though sun and exposure to briny wind had burnt the face scarlet.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In obedience, therefore, to his honour’s commands, I related to him the Revolution under the Prince of Orange; the long war with France, entered into by the said prince, and renewed by his successor, the present queen, wherein the greatest powers of Christendom were engaged, and which still continued: I computed, at his request, that about a million of Yahoos might have been killed in the whole progress of it; and perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and five times as many ships burnt or sunk.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He inquired next after her family, especially William: and his kindness altogether was such as made her reproach herself for loving him so little, and thinking his return a misfortune; and when, on having courage to lift her eyes to his face, she saw that he was grown thinner, and had the burnt, fagged, worn look of fatigue and a hot climate, every tender feeling was increased, and she was miserable in considering how much unsuspected vexation was probably ready to burst on him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it essential to the preservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my opinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily changed as that implies.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But the long day and the "real dirt" of the night before were telling upon him; and, besides, still in his burnt mind was what had made him angry when he read it on the car.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Or ask him, said Mr. Micawber, if he ever burnt one there.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Oh! then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
