burnt

burnt  (bûrnt)

v.

A past tense and a past participle of burn¹.

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burnt [bɜːnt]

vb

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

Thesaurus

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

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burnt [ˈbɜː^rnt]

pt

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

[vehicle, building] → carbonisé(e)

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

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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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burnt burn