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Adjective: burned  burnd
  1. Destroyed or badly damaged by fire
    "a row of burned houses"; "a burned-over site in the forest"; "a row of burned-out houses";
    - burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out
     
  2. Ruined by overcooking
    "she served us underdone bacon and burned biscuits";
    - burnt
     
  3. Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
    "burned sienna";
    - burnt
Verb: burn (burned, also burnt)  burn
  1. Undergo combustion
    "Maple wood burns well";
    - combust
     
  2. Destroy by fire
    "They burned the house and his diaries";
    - fire, burn down
     
  3. Shine intensely, as if with heat
    "The candles were burning";
    - glow
     
  4. Cause to undergo combustion
    "The car burns only Diesel oil"; "burn garbage";
    - incinerate
     
  5. Cause to burn or combust
    "The sun burned off the fog";
    - combust
     
  6. Damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
    "The sun burned her fair skin during the beach vacation"
     
  7. Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
    "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skis"
     
  8. Spend (significant amounts of money)
    "He has money to burn"
     
  9. Execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
    "Witches were burned in Salem"
     
  10. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
    "The surgeon burned the wart";
    - cauterize, cauterise [Brit]
     
  11. Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
    "He burned easily and had to be careful at the beach";
    - sunburn
     
  12. Create by duplicating data
    "burn a CD";
    - cut
     
  13. Use up (energy)
    "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"; "burn up calories through vigorous exercise";
    - burn off, burn up
     
  14. Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
    "The sun burned his face";
    - bite, sting
     
  15. [informal] Strongly criticize
    "she was burnd for being fat";
    - slate [Brit, informal], tear to shreds [informal], slam [informal], roast [informal]
     
  16. Feel hot or painful
    "My eyes are burning"

See also: cooked, destroyed, treated

Type of: ache, alter, beam, blow [informal], care for, change, change integrity, change state, color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], consume, create, damage, deplete, destroy, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], eat, eat up, execute, exhaust, expend, experience, feel, hurt, make, modify, produce, put to death, ruin, run through, shine, smart, squander, treat, turn, use, use up, waste, wipe out

Encyclopedia: Burned

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