| Pronunciation: | | burnt
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- [adj] ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits"
- [adj] destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
- [adj] hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks"
- [adj] treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna"
- [adj] having undergone oxidation; "burned powder"
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| | Synonyms: | | baked, burned, burned, burned-out, burnt-out, cooked, destroyed, hardened, tempered, toughened, treated |
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| | Antonyms: | | unburned |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Burnt\, p. p. & a.
Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with
fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
{Burnt ear}, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain.
See {Smut}.
{Burnt offering}, something offered and burnt on an altar, as
an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the
Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a
sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of
wheat or barley. Called also {burnt sacrifice}. --[2 Sam.
xxiv. 22.]
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