burnt vs burned
Definitions
adjective
- destroyed or badly damaged by fire
- ruined by overcooking
- treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
Examples
We were visiting homes and hospitals to see football fans who had been badly burnt.
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.
Definitions
adjective
- destroyed or badly damaged by fire
- ruined by overcooking
- treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
Examples
With the range of firearms commonly used, from long-barreled .22 rimfire to snubby .44 magnum a friend calls his the "flare gun", you get quite a range of outcomes in terms of unburned powder distribution.
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.
