Word Finder - burnt

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To cause to be consumed by fire.

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He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

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To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

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He watched the house burn.

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To overheat so as to make unusable.

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He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

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To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

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The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

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

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to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block

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

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She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

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To cauterize.

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To sunburn.

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She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

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

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to burn the mouth with pepper

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

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The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.

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

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A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen

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To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

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Copper burns in chlorine.

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

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We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

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To betray.

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The informant burned him.

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To insult or defeat.

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I just burned you again.

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

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The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

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

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You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!

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To accidentally touch a moving stone.

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

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

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

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To discard.

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To shoot someone with a firearm.

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Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

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(of food) Carbonised.

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The toast was too burnt to eat.

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(of a person) Having a sunburn.

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

The town was half burnt down in 1902.

The door was closed but lopsided in its frame while half the lights overhead were burnt out.

She clambered over one and landed beside Darian, who smelled like burnt flesh.

The ship's captain belted orders to his sun burnt crew, and Taran turned, his dark hair tossed in the sea breeze.

It was burnt in 976 and again in 1106.

The building had been burnt to the ground, and the guardsman began the process of sifting through the ashes.

The acrid smell of burnt eagle feathers hung in the air.

They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.

He looked and recognizing in her both the old and the new Sonya, and being reminded by the smell of burnt cork of the sensation of her kiss, inhaled the frosty air with a full breast and, looking at the ground flying beneath him and at the sparkling sky, felt himself again in fairyland.

A blow sent him smashing into a wall, and he morphed instantly, diving at the demons chasing his brothers as they retreated through the burnt doorway of Kris.s chambers to search for weapons.

The scent of burnt metal and flesh soon followed, then chaos as Elise and Dan moved away from her, each going in the opposite direction under the cover of smoke.

At Deir el Bahri we see that the animal had its throat cut in Mahommedan fashion; it lay on its side, the legs tied together; the heart was taken out, then the liver; the burnt sacrifice was hardly known.

Of her numerous temples at Rome, the most ancient was appropriately in the forum olitorium (vegetable market), built during the first Punic war, and since that time twice burnt down and restored.

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He slipped his arms under the cloak that covered her head, embraced her, pressed her to him, and kissed her on the lips that wore a mustache and had a smell of burnt cork.

The conclusion that the foundations are those of an old temple burnt by the Persians has been generally accepted, but other portions of Dorpfeld's theory - more especially his assumption that the temple was restored after the Persian War - have provoked much controversy.

Courtois isolated the element iodine from " kelp," the burnt ashes of marine plants.

Under the general law against heresy their books were burnt by the hangman, they were searched for signs of witchcraft, they were imprisoned for five weeks and then sent away.

If he accused his master of a crime, unless the charge was of treason, he was burnt.

On the 28th of February 1546 Wishart was brought to trial in the cathedral before the cardinal and other judges, the regent declining to take any active part, and, being found guilty of heresy, was condemned to death and burnt.

On February 9, 1709, the rectory was burnt down, and the children had a narrow escape.

On the morrow after the sabbath a wave offering and also a burnt offering of the he-lamb (with the corresponding meal and drink offering).

On the 10th day of the month every household shall take a firstling male without blemish, of sheep or goat, and should kill it on the 14th at even, and sprinkle the two sideposts and lintel with the blood, and eat the roasted flesh, not sodden, including head, legs and inwards; all remaining over until the morning to be burnt by fire.

Both these series contain numerous plant remains, evergreen oaks, magnolias, aralias, &c., and seams of lignite (coal), which is burnt; but in neither occur the marine beds of the United States.

In 1404 Owen Glendower burnt the town, except the quarters of the Friars Minors.

Outside the north-west angle of the castle, Richard de Clare in 1256 founded a Dominican priory, which was burnt by Glendower in 1404.

In 1555 Rawlins White, a fisherman, was burnt at Cardiff for his Protestantism, and in 1679 two Catholic priests were executed for recusancy.

Here Ney was directed to make a firm stand; but, ascertaining that the Portuguese were at Coimbra and the bridge there broken, and fearing to be cut off also from Murcella, he burnt Condeixa, and marched to Cazal Nova.

The St Petrikirche, originally consecrated in the 12th century and rebuilt in the 14th, was the oldest church in Hamburg; it was burnt in 1842 and rebuilt in its old form in 1844-1849.

In 845 church, monastery and town were burnt down by the Norsemen, and two years later the see of Hamburg was united with that of Bremen and its seat transferred to the latter city.

About two-thirds of the town was burnt down in 1862.

Care must be taken not to expose goods in the plating-bath to too high a current density, else they may be "burnt"; they must never be exposed one at a time to the full anode surface, with the current flowing in an empty bath, but either one piece at a time should be replaced, or some of the anodes should be transferred temporarily to the place of the cathodes, in order to distribute the current over a sufficient cathode-area.

Burnt deposits are dark-coloured, or even pulverulent and useless.

It is said to have been stolen and burnt in 1532, three of the four thieves being subsequently taken and hanged.

After the close of the diet the papal nuncio went to the Netherlands, where he kindled the flames of persecution, two monks of Antwerp, the first martyrs of the Reformation, being burnt in Brussels at his instigation.

He was finally apprehended by order of Pope Eugenius IV., condemned and burnt for heresy.

When heated to nearly a red heat it gives a porous friable mass which is known as "burnt alum."

It was sacked and burnt by the English under the earl of Hertford in 1544, and again in 1547.

The former hall of the grand council, built in 1327, was converted into the chief theatre of Siena by Riccio in 1560, and, after being twice burnt, was rebuilt in 1753 from Bibbiena's designs.

The town was almost entirely burnt down in 1887, and its buildings are newthe church (1888-1893), the Norrbotten Museum and a technical school being the most important.

With the aid of inquisitors from Rome, the evil was literally burnt out, but not before provinces, especially in the south and 1 In 1412 he pawned the twenty-four Zips towns to Poland, and, .in 1411 he pledged his margraviate of Brandenburg to the Hohenzollerns.

Thus the Zapolyas, in 1500 and again in 1507, burnt a large part of Brezn6banya and Beszterczebanya, two of the chief industrial towns of north Hungary.

Reaching Blackheath on the 12th, the insurgents burnt the prisons in Southwark and pillaged the archbishop's palace at Lambeth, while another body of rebels from Essex encamped at Mile End.

The drawbridge of London Bridge having been lowered by treachery, Tyler and his followers crossed the Thames; and being joined by thousands of London apprentices, artisans and criminals, they sacked and burnt John of Gaunt's splendid palace of the Savoy, the official residence of the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, and the prisons of Newgate and the Fleet.

Within it was also the gold lamp of Callimachus, which burnt for a year without refilling, and had a chimney in the form of a palm-tree.

Leonor Maria de Carvalho, whose parents had been burnt by the Inquisition, while she herself had gone through an auto-dale in Spain and been exiled on account of her religion.

On the 18th of October he was beheaded and his body burnt in an auto-dale; that same day one of his popular operettas was given at a Lisbon theatre.

In 1867 Schoemansdal and a considerable portion of the district were abandoned on the advice of Commandant-general Paul Kruger, and Schoemansdal finally was burnt to ashes by a party of natives.

The book was condemned (June loth, 1734), the copies seized and burnt, a warrant issued against the author and his dwelling searched.

It could not be proved that he had ordered the printing, and all Frederick could do was to have the pamphlet burnt by the hangman.