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burnt
  • v  destroy by fire
  • v  shine intensely, as if with heat
  • v  undergo combustion
  • v  cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
  • v  cause to burn or combust
  • v  feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
  • v  cause to undergo combustion
  • v  burn at the stake
  • v  spend (significant amounts of money)
  • v  feel hot or painful
  • v  burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
  • v  get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
  • v  create by duplicating data
  • v  use up (energy)
  • v  burn with heat, fire, or radiation
    The iron burnt a hole in my dress
  • s  ruined by overcooking
    she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits
  • s  treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
    burnt sienna
  • s  destroyed or badly damaged by fire
    a charred bit of burnt wood
    barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
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burnt-out
  • s  exhausted as a result of longtime stress
  • s  inoperative as a result of heat or friction
  • s  destroyed or badly damaged by fire
    barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
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burr-headed
  • s  having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)
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burred
  • v  remove the burrs from
  • s  having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    burred fruits
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burry
  • s  having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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burundi
  • n  a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika
  • a  of or relating to or characteristic of Burundi or its people
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