Definitions for burnt
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. burned, burnt(adj)

   ruined by overcooking

   "she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits"

2. burned, burnt(adj)

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

   "burnt sienna"

3. burned, burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out(adj)

   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"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Anagrams for burnt »

1. brunt

How to pronounce burnt?

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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. Akram Al Deek:

   Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more.

2. Markus Bachmann:

   When it comes to hedging or capital raising, a lot of the medium-sized companies won't tap the market because investors don't like it, they have been burnt in the past.

3. An Lee:

   I used to work during the summer as a sous chef, i had an instance where I overcooked a sauce. The bottom of the saucepan become burnt and bubbly, and when I looked down on the bottom of the saucepan I felt disgust. I couldn't really touch it.

4. Yang Hai:

   Once bitten, twice shy. Investors burnt by last year's market crash are still too scared to enter the market, which is why we see a trading pattern of quick profit-taking.

5. Jackie Goulet:

   Then, he just dropped. I was able to get him to walk two feet, and he dropped and said, ‘My face got burnt trying to get out the front door.’.

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