Crossword clues for burnt
burnt
- Far from rare
- Definitely overcooked
- Well past well-done
- Well done, and then some
- Way beyond well-done
- Way beyond well done
- Very well-done!
- Very well-done
- Very well done
- Too well-done
- Sienna or offering
- Seriously overcooked
- Rather overdone
- More than just a little charred
- More than charred (Var.)
- Like overdone toast
- Hardly rare
- Done too well
- Cooked for too long
- Beyond well done
- Badly cooked
- ___ umber
- Reddish-brown pigment
- Taken, slangily
- Like ashes
- Deep, as a color
- Not just well-done
- Very well done?
- Black, say
- Charred
- ___ offering
- Like some offerings
- Kind of offering
- ___ sienna
- Word with ocher or umber
- Orange or offering
- Incinerated
- "A ___-out Case": G. Greene
- ___ almond (ice-cream flavor)
- Service parts only went up
- Ruined by overcooking
- Beef starter to turn out badly?
- Beyond well-done
- Overdone, as toast
- Toasted too much
- Left on the grill too long
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.]
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.]
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.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.
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.
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.
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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; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up.
--Shak.This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
--Dryden.When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ??ass as fire.
--Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
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(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. 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,
to destroy or obliterate by burning. ``Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?''
--Shak.-
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle adjective from alternative past participle of burn (v.). Burnt offering (late 14c.) is biblical (see Ex. xx:24, Mark xii:33).
Wiktionary
1 (context of food English) carbonize. 2 (context of a person English) Having a sunburn. 3 (context of a colour English) Being darker than standard, especially browner. v
(en-past of: burn)
WordNet
n. pain that feels hot as if it were on fire [syn: burning]
a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn]
an injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
a burned place or area [syn: burn mark]
damage inflicted by burning
[also: burnt]
adj. ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt buscuits" [syn: burned]
having undergone oxidation; "burned powder" [syn: burned] [ant: unburned]
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna" [syn: burned]
hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks" [syn: baked, burned]
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]
See burn
v. destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" [syn: fire, burn down]
shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" [syn: glow]
undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well" [syn: combust]
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" [syn: bite, sting]
cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" [syn: combust]
feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"
cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" [syn: incinerate]
burn at the stake; "Witches were burned in Salem"
spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"
feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning"
burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterize, cauterise]
get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun [syn: sunburn]
create by duplicating data; "cut a disk"; "burn a CD" [syn: cut]
use up (energy); "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" [syn: burn off, burn up]
burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
[also: burnt]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Burnt is a 2015 American drama film directed by John Wells and written by Steven Knight, from a story by Michael Kalesniko. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Matthew Rhys, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alicia Vikander, Uma Thurman and Emma Thompson. The film was released on October 30, 2015, by The Weinstein Company.
Usage examples of "burnt".
It is made artificially from high wines by the addition of oil of Cognac, to give it flavor, burnt sugar to give it color, and logwood or catechu, to impart astringency and roughness of taste.
In his pastoral letter to his clergy urging them to take the oath of allegiance, Burnet grounded the claim of William and Mary on the right of conquest, a view which gave such offence that the pamphlet was burnt by the common hangman three years later.
Gomez cuffed him without malice, then he took a piece of this bread, went over to a stove maculate with burnt fat, sloshed the bread in a pan of what looked like sardine-oil, folded it into a sandwich and, drippingly, ate.
Then Minnum broke out a bottle of naeffita, a jade-green liquor, whose smokey richness held hints of cloves, cinnamon, and burnt orange.
London was burnt to the ground, a great murrain of cattle happened for the first time in the English nation, and a terrible plague carried off many thousands of the people.
Comparing the two camps, Vani and Burnt Fur, the ranger could tell the gnomes were outmatched in savagery, let alone sheer numbers.
I put you in the worst bed, and allowed you the burnt meat and the sodden bread, and the valise to carry twice as often as I took it myself, to satisfy your plaguy scruples?
The leaves of the Polypody when burnt furnish a large proportion of carbonate of Potash.
One thing sure, he wasnt no profet to judje from what they did to them devils in the burnt truck if it was them, I dont know.
Bee propolis, or the glutinous resin manufactured by bees for fixing the foundations of their combs, will afford relief to the asthmatic by its fumes when burnt.
There were elementarii whipping hard at the frightened fire elementals, but that enraged them and some in passing snapped petulant and pyrotic at their handlers and burnt them to death.
There was a faint metallic tang, and he suddenly recalled that the first men on the Moon had reported a hint of burnt gunpowder when they repressurized the lunar module.
The only things left would be a brief stink of burnt meat and a batch of steel that needed resmelting because it had picked up too much carbon.
It was not the buccaneer custom to fire cities before they had sacked them, nor is it in the least likely that Morgan would have burnt so glorious a town before he had offered it to ransom.
They took the town, and sacked its sugar refineries, which they burnt.