burned vs burnt

burned

Definitions

adjective

  1. destroyed or badly damaged by fire
  2. ruined by overcooking
  3. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

Examples

This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.

Their bodies were then doused with petrol and burned in a garden.

His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.

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burnt

Definitions

adjective

  1. destroyed or badly damaged by fire
  2. ruined by overcooking
  3. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

Examples

So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached

At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.

The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.

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