burnt

[ burnt ]
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verb
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of burn1.

adjective
  1. 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.

Origin of burnt

1
First recorded in 1350–1400, for the adjective

Other words from burnt

  • un·burnt, adjective
  • well-burnt, adjective

Words Nearby burnt

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How to use burnt in a sentence

  • He noticed at the same time several burnt matches between his cushions and her chair.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • The Dutch fleet attacked burnt island, in Scotland, but were repulsed.

  • That night one of them endeavored to storm the magazine, burnt and plundered the station, and marched off towards Delhi.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.

  • Later on he became intensely critical of his own work, and finally bought up all the copies he could lay hands on and burnt them!

British Dictionary definitions for burnt

burnt

/ (bɜːnt) /


verb
  1. a past tense and past participle of burn 1

adjective
  1. affected by or as if by burning; charred

  2. (of various pigments, such as ochre and orange) calcined, with a resultant darkening of colour

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