[
US
/ˈbɝnd/
]
[ UK /bˈɜːnd/ ]
[ UK /bˈɜːnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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destroyed or badly damaged by fire
a charred bit of burnt wood
a row of burned houses
barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
a burned-over site in the forest -
ruined by overcooking
she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits -
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
burnt sienna
How To Use burned In A Sentence
- 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. The Sun
- His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.
- The satellite re-entered the atmosphere and burned up.
- Coal fell out of the fire, and burned the carpet.
- All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York. Ulysses
- The "Very Funny" cable network burned off the whopping nine-episode season of its sly charmer about Chicago sportswriter PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her pals on Sundays opposite such sky-high-profile cable competition as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Mad Men — whose costar Joel Murray, aka rehabbed alky Freddy Rumsen, guested on Boys as the owner who sold the gang's hangout, Crowley's, to Brando (Reid Scott) in the season finale. Cheers & Jeers: My Boys to Men?
- He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile. Forbes.com: News
- The city crumbled and burned to brands and ashes.
- We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat. Cramer - French Word-A-Day