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- Dictionaryburned/bəːnd/
adjective
- 1. destroyed, damaged, or injured by heat or fire: "burned wood"
- 2. (of a colour, especially orange or red) of a darkish or dusky shade: "she wore burnt orange and black"
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to cause emotional pain or damage to someone. burn someone at the stake. to kill someone by tying the person to a post and burning them: He refused to convert and was burned at the stake. See more. burn (something) to the ground. to completely destroy a building by fire:
: to consume fuel and give off heat, light, and gases. A small fire burned on the hearth. b. : to undergo combustion. Soft woods burn easily. Marc Hayot. also : to undergo nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. A constant fusion fire burns in its core, where the hydrogen atomic nuclei merge into helium. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. c.
a. To penetrate something by intense heat, energy, or caustic effect: The acid burned into the table. b. To cause a strong impression, especially by emotional intensity: a look that burned into them; shame burning into my heart. 8. a. To become irritated or painful, as by chafing or inflammation: eyes burning from the smoke.
Burned definition: having been cheated in a sale of drugs. See examples of BURNED used in a sentence.
to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate. Synonyms: flame. (of a fireplace, furnace, etc.) to contain a fire. to feel heat or a physiologically similar sensation; feel pain from or as if from a fire:
an injury or damage caused by fire, heat, radiation, wind, caustics, etc.: in medicine, burns are classified as first-degree burn, reddening, second-degree burn, blistering, and third-degree burn, destruction of the skin and the tissues under it
adjective. destroyed or badly damaged by fire. “a row of burned houses”. “a burned -over site in the forest”. synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt, burnt-out. destroyed. spoiled or ruined or demolished. adjective. ruined by overcooking.
