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Webster 1913 Edition


Burnt

Burnt

,
p.
p.
&
Adj.
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. Called also
burnt sacrifice
.
[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Burnt

BURNT

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pp.
of burn. Consumed; scorched; heated; subjected to the action of fire.

Definition 2024


burnt

burnt

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burnt

  1. simple past tense and past participle of burn

Adjective

burnt (comparative more burnt, superlative most burnt)

  1. (of food) Carbonised.
    The toast was too burnt to eat.
  2. (of a person) Having a sunburn.
  3. (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.

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