burned
UK/ˈbɜːnd//ˈbɝnd/
burned adjective: damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process. Also the simple past and past participle of burn.
Adjective
burned (comparative more burned, superlative most burned)
- Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
- Creating more burned range, which is not available in severe winters, would be of no use.1985, Ervin G. Schuster, Below-cost Timber Sales, page 46
- It burned around her face, around her breast and arm and face—she was very burned. And her hair was burned, and ... oh God.2014, Gregory William Mank, The Very Witching Time of Night, page 17
Also used as
burned is also the simple past and past participle of burn.
burned meaning in Tamil and Telugu
burned in Tamil
- எரிந்தது, எரிக்கப்பட்டது
burned in Telugu
- కాలిపోయింది
Examples of burned in a sentence
- That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer:
- Few photos were even taken of the inner side of the closet door, so that only witness memories—police and firefighter witness memories—can attest to which side was more burned.2019, Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, page 148:
Forms of burned
| comparative | more burned |
|---|---|
| superlative | most burned |
| alternative form | burnt |
Origin of burned
The past tense is inherited from Middle English burnede. The past participle (from which the adjective is also derived) is inherited from Middle English burned. Synchronically, both forms are equivalent to burn + -ed.
Words formed from burned
Phrases with burned
- burned in
- burned up
- burned off
- burned away
- burned coal
- burned down
- burned time
- burned bread
- burned rubber
- burned through
- burned daylight
- burned one down
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- burned pavement
- burned the coal
- burned the roof
- burned the water
- turned or burned
- controlled burned
- dumped and burned
- burned one's boats
- burned one's toast
- crashed and burned
- I've burned myself
- burned one's bridges
- burned one's fingers
- burned someone's ass
- burned someone's ears
- burned the midnight oil
- fiddled while Rome burned
- burned someone at the stake
- Rome wasn't burned in a day
- burned the candle at both ends
- burned a hole in someone's pocket
- burned that bridge when one came to it
Words that rhyme with burned
Questions about burned
- What does burned mean?
- Burned means damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
- What is burned in Tamil?
- Burned in Tamil is எரிந்தது, எரிக்கப்பட்டது. See Burned meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use burned in a sentence?
- That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.
- What part of speech is burned?
- Burned is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce burned?
- Burned is pronounced /ˈbɜːnd/ (UK).
Words near burned in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: burned (page history and authors); burned (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burned (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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