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Definitions for Burnt
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. burned, burntadjective

    ruined by overcooking

    "she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits"

  2. burned, burntadjective

    treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

    "burnt sienna"

  3. burned, burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-outadjective

    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"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Burntparticip. pass. of burn.

    I find it very difficult to know,
    Who, to refresh th’ attendants to a grave,
    Burnt claret first, or Naples bisket gave. William King, Cookery.

ChatGPT

  1. burnt

    Burnt refers to something that has been damaged, discolored, or destroyed by fire or heat. It can also describe a color that is darkened as if by burning, or a taste or smell strongly affected by heat.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Burnt

    of Burn

  2. Burnt

    consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Burnt

    pa.p. of Burn (q.v.).

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Burnt' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3481

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Burnt in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Burnt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Burnt in a Sentence

  1. Alfred Hawkins:

    This, combined with the documentary evidence and sherds( yes' sherds' not' shards') of medieval glazed tile, resulted in the possibility that we had found the floor of Edward I's lost chapel which burnt down in 1513.

  2. Matt Kean:

    The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the brush-tailed rock-wallaby, initial fire assessments indicate the habitat of several important brush-tailed rock-wallaby populations was burnt in the recent bushfires. The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat.

  3. Lauren Davis:

    We found a campsite, which extends over about 200 sq. m (2,153 square feet) that was used by the desert nomads since prehistoric times, at the site we found burnt stones, flint and stone tools as well as pottery sherds, but the truly special find is this collection of ostrich eggs. Although the nomads did not build permanent structures at this site, the finds allow us to feel their presence in the desert.

  4. Palta McGilligan:

    The planet is at risk, in rural India, we can't grow trees quickly enough to make up for the wood burnt for cooking.

  5. Kathleen Smith:

    Large money-losing IPOs with high valuations tend to be challenging in the IPO market, iPO investors have already been burnt by Lyft and Uber. They are going to be cautious about WeWork.

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