burned

/ bɜːnd /

adjective

1. having been cheated in a sale of drugs

Example Sentences

“In her own good land here she’s been abused, / She’s been burned, dishonored, denied, refused.”

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A Dutch beekeeper has spoken of his shock after his 10 beehives were burned down in a park in the central city of Almere, with the loss of an estimated half a million bees.

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The world’s greatest armada was allowed to rot in the harbor, and the Chinese court burned maps to prevent future voyages.

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Others were burned with scalding water or hung upside down in a wardrobe.

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The site secures copper that would otherwise be wasted from households and scrapyards, or even the ashes from burned household waste.

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Related Words

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