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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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BURN definition: 1. to be hurt, damaged, or destroyed by fire or extreme heat, or to cause this to happen: 2. to…. Learn more.
a. : 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.
1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel: The dry wood burned quickly. 2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent: a house that burned to the ground; eggs that burned and stuck to the pan. 3. To consume fuel: a rocket stage designed to burn for three minutes before being jettisoned. 4.
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. 2. (of a fireplace, furnace, etc.) to contain a fire. 3. to feel heat or a physiologically similar sensation; feel pain from or as if from a fire.
Burned definition: having been cheated in a sale of drugs. See examples of BURNED used in a sentence.
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.
Burn definition: to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire. See examples of BURN used in a sentence.
BURN definition: 1. to destroy something with fire, or to be destroyed by fire: 2. to produce flames: 3. If you…. Learn more.
Definition of burned in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary. [transitive, intransitive] to destroy, damage, injure or kill somebody/something by fire; to be destroyed, etc. by fire. Six million acres have burned this year in the United States. The house burned to the ground. Ten people burned to death in the hotel fire. burn somebody/something to burn waste paper/dead leaves.
