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burnt

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burnt  (bûrnt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of burn1.
burnt
Verb
a past of burn1
Adjective
affected by or as if by burning; charred
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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 burn


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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
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