burnt

burnt (bûrnt)

A past tense and a past participle of burn¹.

burnt [bɜːnt]

a past tense and past participle of burn¹

adj

1. affected by or as if by burning; charred

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) (of various pigments, such as ochre and orange) calcined, with a resultant darkening of colour

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Adj.	1.	burnt - ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits" burned cooked - having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
	2.	burnt - treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna" burned treated - subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent; "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated fabrics resist wrinkling"
	3.	burnt - 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-over, burned, burned-out, burnt-out destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"

Translations

burnt [bɜːnt]

A. PT & PP of burn

B. ADJ → quemado
a burnt child dreads the fire → el gato escaldado del agua fría huye
it has a burnt taste → sabe a quemado

C. CPD burnt almonds NPL → almendras fpl tostadas
burnt offering N (Rel) → holocausto m
I forgot to turn off the oven and we had a burnt offering for dinner > (hum) → se me olvidó apagar el horno y tuvimos carbón para cenar
burnt orange N (= colour) → naranja m oscuro
burnt sienna N (= colour) → siena f tostada
burnt sugar N → azúcar m quemado
burnt umber N (= colour) → siena m tostado

burnt [ˈbɜː^rnt]

pp of burn
burnt-out burned-out [ˌbɜː^rntˈaʊt] adj

[vehicle, building] → carbonisé(e)

[person] → épuisé(e)
burnt sugar n (British) → caramel m

burnt

adj (Brit) → verbrannt; there’s a burnt smell → es riecht verbrannt or brenzlig or (Cook also) → angebrannt; the coffee has a slightly burnt taste → der Kaffee schmeckt wie frisch geröstet

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burn burn down burn in burn mark burn off burn out burn up burned burned-out burned-over burning burning bush Burns burnt sienna burnt-out char cigarette burn combust first-degree burn	-- Let me put them into the mouths of the eulogists of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound--will have his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled: Then he will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to be, just; the words of Aeschylus may be more truly spoken of the unjust than of the just. The Republic by Plato View in context Raskolnikov's landlady bore witness, too, that when they had lived in another house at Five Corners, Raskolnikov had rescued two little children from a house on fire and was burnt in doing so. Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context The coal replied: 'I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain,--I should have been burnt to ashes. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context	burning burning at the stake burning bush Burning fluid burning glass Burning house Burning mirror burnish burnished Burnisher burnishing Burnishing machine Burnley burnoose burnous burnouse burnout burnout velocity Burns Burns Night burns unit Burnside burnsides Burnstickle Burnsville burnt burnt almond Burnt ear burnt lime burnt offering Burnt sacrifice burnt shale burnt sienna burnt sugar burnt umber burnt-out burnt-tip orchid burnup buroo burp burp gun burping burqa Burr burr drill burr marigold Burr millstone burr oak burr-headed Burra burramys	Burns, John Burns, John Anthony Burns, Ken Burns, Otway Burns, Ralph Burns, Robert Burns, Robert Burns, Robert Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations, Swelling Burns, William J. Burnsian Burnsian Burnsian Burnsian burnside Burnside boring machine Burnside High School Burnside's Invention Burnside, Ambrose Burnside, Ambrose Everett Burnside, William Burnside-Frobenius theorem burnsides Burnstickle Burnsville Burnsville High School Burnsville Honda Lincoln Mercury Burnsville Performing Arts Center Burnsville, Minnesota burnt Burnt air Burnt air Burnt air burnt almond Burnt Beyond Recognition Burnt Beyond Repair Burnt Birch Trailer Association burnt boats burnt boats burnt boats burnt boats burnt boats burnt brick Burnt Bridge Creek Burnt Bridge Creek Neighborhood Association burnt bridges burnt bridges burnt bridges burnt bridges burnt bridges Burnt by the Sun Burnt city burnt deposit burnt down burnt down burnt down burnt down burnt down Burnt ear Burnt earth

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-- Let me put them into the mouths of the eulogists of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound--will have his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled: Then he will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to be, just; the words of Aeschylus may be more truly spoken of the unjust than of the just.

The Republic by Plato View in context

Raskolnikov's landlady bore witness, too, that when they had lived in another house at Five Corners, Raskolnikov had rescued two little children from a house on fire and was burnt in doing so.

Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

The coal replied: 'I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain,--I should have been burnt to ashes.

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

Burns, John
Burns, John Anthony
Burns, Ken
Burns, Otway
Burns, Ralph
Burns, Robert
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Burns, Robert
Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations, Swelling
Burns, William J.
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Burnside, William
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Burnsville Performing Arts Center
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