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Definition of Burnt
1. Adjective. Ruined by overcooking. "She served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits"
2. Adjective. Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point. "Burnt sienna"
3. Adjective. Destroyed or badly damaged by fire. "Barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
Definition of Burnt
1. p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
Definition of Burnt
1. Verb. (past of burn) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burnt
1. burn [v] - See also: burn
Medical Definition of Burnt
1. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Synonym: burnt sacrifice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnt
Literary usage of Burnt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"Charles II. burnt the Solemn League and Covenant by the hands of the hangman,
and the Scotch in revenge burnt the Acts of Supremacy, &c. ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"At one was the burning of the pope, with (Richard) Langhorne of the Temple
and (Edward) Coleman (two of the plotters) (who) were burnt with him as his ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"291 ). About May, Prince Henry marched into the rebels' country, but was, as
usual, avoided by Owain. He burnt, however, Sycharth, ..."
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