What does burnt mean?

Definitions for burnt
bɜrntburnt

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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. Mayor Louie Trujillo:

    There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed.

  2. Bhagavad Gita:

    As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.

  3. Shane Chen:

    We have to operate low because we have no staff or the staff is so burnt out. You can see the unhappiness, stress and anxiety on their faces.

  4. Ibrahim Adamu:

    ?The gunmen slaughtered their 23 victims like rams and decapitated them. They injured several people, they burned a large part of the village and we are afraid some residents were burnt in the homes because most people had gone to bed when the gunmen struck.

  5. Gary Wilson:

    It was a horrible thing... the whole bush has been burnt. It's been vaporized - it's Vietnam is what it looks like.

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