burnt

[burnt]

verb

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

adjective

1. Fine Arts.

   1. of or showing earth pigments that have been calcined and changed to a deeper and warmer color.

      burnt ocher.

   2. of or showing colors having a deeper or grayer hue than is usually associated with them.

      burnt orange; burnt rose.

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

Other Word Forms

• unburnt adjective
• well-burnt adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of burnt¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, for the adjective

Example Sentences

The fuse box was burnt out and clothes dried on wire stretched across the stairwell.

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Inevitably, Shelton says the band are going to end up making music that nobody enjoys, because they’ll have burnt out all of our receptors to the things that people like about us.

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One of the latest came to light in al-Otaiba village, in the district of Eastern Ghouta, where a shepherd stumbled on clothing and human remains after straw was burnt off.

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The air smelled faintly like burnt cornmeal and panic.

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Mr De Wet also said Mr Olivier chopped up the hunting rifles with an angle grinder and burnt the wooden parts of the gun.

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