Burnt - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |bɜːrnt|  American pronunciation of the word burnt
Brit.  |bɜːnt|  British pronunciation of the word burnt

adjective

- ruined by overcooking (syn: burned)
she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits
- treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point (syn: burned)
burnt sienna
- destroyed or badly damaged by fire (syn: burned, burnt-out)
a charred bit of burnt wood
barricaded the street with burnt-out cars

Extra examples

A flame is kept constantly burning at the monument.

A small fire burned brightly in the fireplace.

There was a little stove burning in the front room.

I could smell smoke and knew that something was burning.

Be sure not to leave any candles burning when you go to bed.

I burned the letter when I had finished reading it.

The new town law makes it illegal to burn trash.

The wildfire has burned acres of forest.

Parts of the house were badly burned in the fire.

Burnt child dreads the fire.

I burnt her letter.

The church burnt to the ground.

I burnt the toast.

The meat has been burnt to ashes / a cinder / a crisp.

Heretics were burnt at the stake.

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