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verb a simple past tense and past participle of burn1 .
adjective Fine Arts . of or showing earth pigments that have been calcined and changed to a deeper and warmer color: burnt ocher. of or showing colors having a deeper or grayer hue than is usually associated with them: burnt orange; burnt rose.
OTHER WORDS FROM burnt un·burnt, adjective well-burnt, adjective Words nearby burnt Burnside, burnsides, burn someone up, Burns, Robert, Burnsville, burnt , burnt almond, burn the candle at both ends, burn the midnight oil, burn to a cinder, burnt offering
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Example sentences from the Web for burnt For Paul, the thrill of breakfast with the Reverend, may be giving way to the taste of burnt toast.
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I learned some things I can't unlearn: human kneecaps look like rocks; bones when burnt , shrink and twist.
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Omran, who was 17 at the time, was completely bald, weak, and as frail as a burnt match.
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Then he panicked and took her body somewhere and burnt it on fire!
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To me," she says, "the burnt part of the skin is what has all the good flavor.
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One stormy night he had suddenly surprised the convoy fleet at Karlskrona and burnt a large portion of it.
The Tower of Dago | Mr Jkai
Some repairers use a hastily made solution of powdered colour such as burnt umber, and paint or rub it into the wood.
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins | Horace Petherick
Tho people, with whom he was a favourite, burnt his body in the Curia Hostilia, and the Curia with it.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. | Plutarch
He was condemned as a heretic, the headless body was relaxed and burnt and the head was set over one of the gateways.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 | Henry Charles Lea
The little bald old man, General Zhukov's cook, the one whose cap had been burnt , walked in.
The Witch and Other Stories | Anton Chekhov
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British Dictionary definitions for burnt verb a past tense and past participle of burn 1
adjective affected by or as if by burning; charred
(of various pigments, such as ochre and orange) calcined, with a resultant darkening of colour
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Words related to burnt parched, seared, scorched, charred, scalded, singed