burnt
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
- Odeur 53, created in 1998, has notes of nail polish and burnt rubber.
- There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings .
- Trailers were burnt to their frames in an instant, like paper models.