Burned
[bərnd]
Definition
(adj.) ruined by overcooking; 'she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits' .
(adj.) destroyed or badly damaged by fire; 'a row of burned houses'; 'a charred bit of burnt wood'; 'a burned-over site in the forest'; 'barricaded the street with burnt-out cars' .
(adj.) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; 'burnt sienna' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Burn
(p. p. & a.) See Burnt.
(p. p.) Burnished.
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Examples
- Her colour burned deeper, but she held his gaze. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My uncle burned with indignation, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She had enveloped both Will and Rosamond in her burning scorn, and it seemed to her as if Rosamond were burned out of her sight forever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Yet the heart of each burned from the other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Always, this flame had burned in his heart, sustaining him through everything, the welfare of the people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The enemy also burned the bridge across the river at Hardwicksville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A wonderful tenderness burned in him, at the sight of her quivering, so sensitive fingers: and at the same time he was full of rage and callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But a bitterer red anger burned up to fury in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And all your notes, said Dorothea, whose heart had already burned within her on this subject, so that now she could not help speaking with her tongue. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When wood is burned, a small pile of ashes is left, and we think of the bulk of the wood as destroyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was the weather to call out May's radiance, and she burned like a young maple in the frost. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They burned witches instead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But no; I knew the fire of that hearth burned before its Lares no more--it went out long ago, and the household gods had been carried elsewhere. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She and all the firemen smelled the burned flesh from inside it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then I took them into my own room and burned them at the candle, and they were dust in an instant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She knit and knit, but while she mused the fire burned; at last she broke out--I tell you, Augustine, I can't get over things so, if you can. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He looked back and saw her standing there, the first morning sunlight on her brown face and the cropped, tawny, burned-gold hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So he came down reluctantly, snow-burned, snow-estranged, to the house in the hollow, between the knuckles of the mountain tops. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His desire to kill burned fiercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Sand should abound in the clay in a certain proportion, or be mixed therewith, otherwise the clay, whether burned or unburned, will crumble. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His father’s shop burned, and the whole family seemed on the brink of ruin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For a moment I thought they might have got wet and been burned in the drying. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But, the fierce figures were steadily wending East, West, North, and South, be that as it would; and whosoever hung, fire burned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This may be accomplished by confining the articles to be treated in a chamber in which the compound is being burned. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- His blue eyes burned with a keen, yet cold light, there was a certain beauty, a beautiful passivity in all his body, his moulding. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace, and precipitate him into the ocean. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The arc of flame passed from the top of one carbon to the other, fusing the separating layer of kaolin, and the whole burned down together as a candle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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