burnt

/หˆbษœษนnt/

IPA: /B ER1 N T/

verb
  1. 1

    To cause to be consumed by fire.

    โ€œHe burned his manuscript in the fireplace.โ€

  2. 2

    To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

    โ€œHe watched the house burn.โ€

  3. 3

    To overheat so as to make unusable.

    โ€œHe burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.โ€

  4. 4

    To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

    โ€œThe grill was too hot and the steak burned.โ€

  5. 5

    To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

    โ€œto burn a hole;โ€ƒ to burn letters into a blockโ€

  6. 6

    To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

    โ€œShe burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.โ€

  7. 7

    To cauterize.

  8. 8

    To sunburn.

    โ€œShe forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.โ€

  9. 9

    To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

    โ€œto burn the mouth with pepperโ€

  10. 10

    To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

    โ€œThe child's forehead was burning with fever.โ€ƒ Her cheeks burned with shame.โ€

  11. 11

    To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

    โ€œA human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.โ€ƒ to burn iron in oxygenโ€

  12. 12

    To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

    โ€œCopper burns in chlorine.โ€

  13. 13

    To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    โ€œWeโ€™ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.โ€

  14. 14

    To betray.

    โ€œThe informant burned him.โ€

  15. 15

    To insult or defeat.

    โ€œI just burned you again.โ€

  16. 16

    To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

    โ€œThe company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.โ€

  17. 17

    In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

    โ€œYou're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!โ€

  18. 18

    To accidentally touch a moving stone.

  19. 19

    In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

  20. 20

    To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

  21. 21

    (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

  22. 22

    To discard.

  23. 23

    To shoot someone with a firearm.

adjective
  1. 1

    Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

  2. 2

    (of food) Carbonised.

    โ€œThe toast was too burnt to eat.โ€

  3. 3

    (of a person) Having a sunburn.

  4. 4

    (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burn, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burnt