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backburnered

backburnered is the simple past and past participle of backburner.

Meaning of backburner

Verb

backburner (third-person singular simple present backburners, present participle backburnering, simple past and past participle backburnered)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To relegate to a lower priority.
    • "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.2013, Lorna Stewart, BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health

Questions about backburnered

What is backburnered the simple past and past participle of?
Backburnered is the simple past and past participle of backburner.

Words near backburnered in the dictionary

  1. backbulge
  2. backbulges
  3. backburn
  4. backburned
  5. backburner
  6. backburnered
  7. backburnering
  8. backburners
  9. backburning
  10. backburns
  11. backburnt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backburnered (page history and authors); backburner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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