BURNT

burned, burnt

(adjective) ruined by overcooking; “she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits”

burned, burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out

(adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire; “a row of burned houses”; “a charred bit of burnt wood”; “a burned-over site in the forest”; “barricaded the street with burnt-out cars”

burned, burnt

(adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; “burnt sienna”

BURN

sunburn, burn

(verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

burn

(verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation; “The iron burnt a hole in my dress”

cauterize, cauterise, burn

(verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; “The surgeon cauterized the wart”

burn, combust

(verb) undergo combustion; “Maple wood burns well”

burn, incinerate

(verb) cause to undergo combustion; “burn garbage”; “The car burns only Diesel oil”

burn, fire, burn down

(verb) destroy by fire; “They burned the house and his diaries”

cut, burn

(verb) create by duplicating data; “cut a disk”; “burn a CD”

burn

(verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; “She was burning with anger”; “He was burning to try out his new skies”

bite, sting, burn

(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; “The sun burned his face”

burn

(verb) feel hot or painful; “My eyes are burning”

burn

(verb) spend (significant amounts of money); “He has money to burn”

burn

(verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight; “Witches were burned in Salem”

burn, combust

(verb) cause to burn or combust; “The sun burned off the fog”; “We combust coal and other fossil fuels”

burn, glow

(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat; “The coals were glowing in the dark”; “The candles were burning”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

burnt

(chiefly, Commonwealth, UK) simple past tense and past participle of burn

Adjective

burnt (comparative more burnt, superlative most burnt)

Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

(of food) Carbonised.

(of a person) Having a sunburn.

(of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.

Usage notes

The word burnt as the simple past and past participle of burn is largely a UK usage, but the word burnt as an adjective is by no means restricted to the UK.

Anagrams

• Brunt, brunt

Source: Wiktionary

Burnt, p. p. & a.

Definition: 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.]

BURN

Burn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burned (Burnt (p. pr. & vb. n. Burning.] Etym: [OE. bernen, brennen, v.t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.]

1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.

2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.

3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.

5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. This tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

6. (Surg.)

Definition: To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

7. (Chem.)

Definition: To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.

– To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned.

– To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak.

– To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.

– To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes" Shak.

– To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.

– To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

Burn, v. i.

1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." Deut. ix. 15.

2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak.

3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way Luke xxiv. 32. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. Shak. Burning with high hope. Byron. The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. Pope. The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

4. (Chem.)

Definition: To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.

5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted.

– To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.

Burn, n.

1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

Burn, n. Etym: [See 1st Bourn.]

Definition: A small stream. [Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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