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burnt

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • Canada//bɝnt//
  • Australia//bɜːnt//
  • //bɔːnt//

Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of burnsimple past and past participle of burn

    I burnt the toast.

    The house burnt down.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English brent, brynt; by surface analysis, burn + t.

adjective

  1. 1

    Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

    The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.

  2. 2

    Carbonised.

    The toast was too burnt to eat.

  3. 3

    Having a sunburn.

  4. 4

    Being darker than standard, especially browner.

noun

  1. 1

    informalChar.

    You might also try 5star PBX organic cleaner. This stuff is amazing. Found at your local beer and wine brewers supply store, this stuff will clean the "burnt" off the bottom of your pans.

Forms

comparative
more burnt
superlative
most burnt
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).