burned

English

Alternative forms

• burnt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)nd/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nd

Adjective

burned (comparative more burned, superlative most burned)

1. Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
   • 1985, Ervin G. Schuster, Below-cost Timber Sales, page 46:

     Creating more burned range, which is not available in severe winters, would be of no use.

   • 2014, Gregory William Mank, The Very Witching Time of Night, page 17:

     It burned around her face, around her breast and arm and face—she was very burned. And her hair was burned, and ... oh God.

   • 2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer:

     That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.

   • 2019, Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, page 148:

     Few photos were even taken of the inner side of the closet door, so that only witness memories—police and firefighter witness memories—can attest to which side was more burned.

Derived terms

• heartburned
• unburned
• windburned

 

Verb

burned

1. simple past and past participle of burn

Anagrams

• Burden, bunder, burden, unbred