Found 2 items, similar to Burnt.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: burnt burn n 1: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: burning] 2: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn] 3: an injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation 4: a burned place or area [syn: burn mark] 5: damage inflicted by burning [also: burnt] burn v 1: destroy by fire; “They burned the house and his diaries” [syn: fire, burn down] 2: shine intensely, as if with heat; “The coals were glowing in the dark”; “The candles were burning” [syn: glow] 3: undergo combustion; “Maple wood burns well” [syn: combust] 4: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; “The sun burned his face” [syn: bite, sting] 5: cause to burn or combust; “The sun burned off the fog”; “We combust coal and other fossil fuels” [syn: combust] 6: feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; “She was burning with anger”; “He was burning to try out his new skies” 7: cause to undergo combustion; “burn garbage”; “The car burns only Diesel oil” [syn: incinerate] 8: burn at the stake; “Witches were burned in Salem” 9: spend (significant amounts of money); “He has money to burn” 10: feel hot or painful; “My eyes are burning” 11: burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; “The surgeon cauterized the wart” [syn: cauterize, cauterise] 12: get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun [syn: sunburn] 13: create by duplicating data; “cut a disk”; “burn a CD” [syn: cut] 14: use up (energy); “burn off calories through vigorous exercise” [syn: burn off, burn up] 15: burn with heat, fire, or radiation; “The iron burnt a hole in my dress” [also: burnt] burnt adj 1: ruined by overcooking; “she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits” [syn: burned] 2: having undergone oxidation; “burned powder” [syn: burned] [ant: unburned] 3: treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; “burnt sienna” [syn: burned] 4: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; “baked bricks”; “burned bricks” [syn: baked, burned] 5: destroyed or badly damaged by fire; “a row of burned houses”; “a charred bit of burnt wood”; “barricaded the street with burnt-out cars” [syn: burned, burned-out, burnt-out] burnt See burn
English → English (gcide) Definition: Burnt Burn \Burn\ (b[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burned (b[^u]rnd) or Burnt (b[^u]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Burning.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. b[ae]rnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw. br["a]nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. “We'll burn his body in the holy place.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. [1913 Webster] 3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. [1913 Webster] 4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. [1913 Webster] 5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. [1913 Webster] This tyrant fever burns me up. --Shak. [1913 Webster] This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ??ass as fire. --Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21. [1913 Webster] 6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. [1913 Webster] 7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. [1913 Webster] To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --Shak. To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. To burn out, (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. “Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?” --Shak. (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen. To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely. [1913 Webster] Burnt \Burnt\, 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster]