adj
Meaning 1
Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
burnt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /bɜːnt/
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Canada, General-American: /bɝnt/
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Northumbria: /bɔːnt/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nt
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CMU ARPABET: B ER1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Carbonised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The toast was too burnt to eat.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having a sunburn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 4
Being darker than standard, especially browner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Char.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
simple past and past participle of burn
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, UK, form-of, participle, past
Examples
- I burnt the toast.
- The house burnt down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
ruined by overcooking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burned
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
destroyed or badly damaged by fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a row of burned houses
- a charred bit of burnt wood
- a burned-over site in the forest
- barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burned, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- burnt sienna
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burned
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English brent, brynt; by surface analysis, burn + t.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَحْرُوق (maḥrūq) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Arabic: مُحْتَرِق (muḥtariq) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Bashkir: янған (yanğan) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Estonian: põlenud — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Ancient Greek: καυστός (kaustós) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Hebrew: שָׂרוּף (sarúf) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Italian: bruciato — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Latin: cremātus — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Māori: mahunu — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Sanskrit: उष्ट (uṣṭa) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Spanish: quemado — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Tày: boọng — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Telugu: దగ్ధము (dagdhamu) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Ottoman Turkish: یانغین (yangın) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Ottoman Turkish: سوخته (suhte) — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Vietnamese: bỏng — damaged or injured by fire or heat
- Bashkir: көйгән (köygən) — carbonized
- Bashkir: янған (yanğan) — carbonized
- Catalan: cremat — carbonized
- Chinese Cantonese: 燶 /㶶 (nung1) — carbonized
- Danish: brændt — carbonized
- Dutch: verbrand — carbonized
- Finnish: palanut — carbonized
- French: brûlé — carbonized
- Ancient Greek: καυστός (kaustós) — carbonized
- Italian: bruciato — carbonized
- Italian: arso — carbonized
- Latin: ustus — carbonized
- Portuguese: queimado — carbonized
- Romanian: ars — carbonized
- Russian: горе́лый (gorélyj) — carbonized
- Russian: жжёный (žžónyj) — carbonized
- Russian: сгоре́вший (sgorévšij) — carbonized
- Russian: вы́жженный (výžžennyj) — carbonized
- Spanish: quemado — carbonized
- Swedish: bränd — carbonized
- Telugu: మాడు (māḍu) — carbonized
- Ottoman Turkish: یانغین (yangın) — carbonized
- Bashkir: янған (yanğan) — sun-burned
- Czech: spálený — sun-burned
- Finnish: palanut — sun-burned
- Portuguese: queimado — sun-burned
- Romanian: ars — sun-burned
- Russian: загоре́лый (zagorélyj) — sun-burned
- Spanish: quemado — sun-burned
- Swedish: solbränd — sun-burned
- Finnish: poltettu — browner than standard
- Russian: подгоре́вший (podgorévšij) — browner than standard
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