Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consumed or scorched by fire.
- Crumbly, and partly or entirely unweldable, from having been raised to too high a temperature in contact with the air: said of iron and steel. The nature of the change which the metal undergoes is not yet clearly understood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
- past participle a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See
Smut . - past participle 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
burn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
- adjective destroyed or badly damaged by fire
- adjective ruined by overcooking
Etymologies
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Examples
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With those 'records of the past,' which my old friend Stillinghast ought to have _eaten_ up years ago, you have burnt up legacies to orphans, benefactions to widows, and many noble charities with it -- _if it was burnt_, "added Mr. Fielding.
May Brooke Anna Hanson Dorsey 1855
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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We wouldn't ever use the term burnt but we have, as I mentioned, investments and receivables in increase there of about $8 million in this first quarter as our sales have gone up to $75 million from I think about $65 or $66 million in the fourth quarter of '08.
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