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Burnt

adjective

1.

Ruined by overcooking. Synonym: burned.

2.

Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point. Synonym: burned.

3.

Destroyed or badly damaged by fire. Synonyms: burned, burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out. "A charred bit of burnt wood" , "A burned-over site in the forest" , "Barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"

Burn

verb

(past & past part. burned or burnt; pres. part. burning)

1.

Destroy by fire. Synonyms: burn down, fire.

2.

Shine intensely, as if with heat. Synonym: glow. "The candles were burning"

3.

Undergo combustion. Synonym: combust.

4.

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. Synonyms: bite, sting.

5.

Cause to burn or combust. Synonym: combust. "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"

6.

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion. "He was burning to try out his new skies"

7.

Cause to undergo combustion. Synonym: incinerate. "The car burns only Diesel oil"

8.

Burn at the stake.

9.

Spend (significant amounts of money).

10.

Feel hot or painful.

11.

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize.

12.

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. Synonym: sunburn.

13.

Create by duplicating data. Synonym: cut. "Burn a CD"

14.

Use up (energy). Synonyms: burn off, burn up.

15.

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation.

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"Burnt" Quotes from Famous Books

... She came into the room, close to his side. Her fingers clasped the hand which was hanging over the side of his chair. The lamp had burnt very low; she could scarcely ...

— Berenice • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... the lamp was lit, and the fire of dried gorse and driftwood burnt with coloured flames and lightning forks, my grandfather would get out his books with a sigh of great content, and Krok would settle silently to his work on net or lobster pot, and my mother took to teaching me my letters, which was not at all ...

— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham

... of a conflagration reddening the skies. My father sent out the footboy to inquire where it was; and when the boy came back, he made us laugh, by snapping his fingers, and saying the fire was not worth so much—although, upon further inquiry, we learnt that the house in which it originated was burnt to the ground. You see, therefore, how the bustle of this great world hardens the sensibilities, but I trust its influence will ...

— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt

... very hard, and when he was in the trench up to his knees, his pickaxe struck against a stone. He dug round it with the spade, and came to a layer of black burnt ashes of bones. Beneath these, which he scraped away, was the large flat stone on which his pick had struck. It was a wide slab of red sandstone, and Randal soon saw that it was the lid of a great stone coffin, such as the ploughshare ...

— The Gold Of Fairnilee • Andrew Lang

... given in the two principal rules. First, it must not be a mere application or variation of an existing trade. Thus, for instance, the Club would not admit an insurance agent simply because instead of insuring men's furniture against being burnt in a fire, he insured, let us say, their trousers against being torn by a mad dog. The principle (as Sir Bradcock Burnaby-Bradcock, in the extraordinarily eloquent and soaring speech to the club on the occasion of the question being raised in the Stormby ...

— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton

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