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burned pavement

burned pavement is the simple past and past participle of burn pavement.

Meaning of burn pavement

Verb

burn pavement (third-person singular simple present burns pavement, present participle burning pavement, simple past and past participle burned pavement or burnt pavement)

  1. (slang) To drive on pavement at high speed.
    • We burned the air that night as you burned pavement in faux drag racing, me struggling to keep my jaw from slackening as I discovered that you shared my artistic vision, indeed my whole world view.2001, Xan Nowakowski, Final Days: Poems and Prose for the Adolescent Apocalypse, page 81

Questions about burned pavement

What is burned pavement the simple past and past participle of?
Burned pavement is the simple past and past participle of burn pavement.

Words near burned pavement in the dictionary

  1. burned one's boats
  2. burned one's bridges
  3. burned one's fingers
  4. burned one's toast
  5. burned out
  6. burned pavement
  7. burned rubber
  8. burned someone at the stake
  9. burned someone's ass
  10. burned someone's ears
  11. burned that bridge when one came to it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burned pavement (page history and authors); burn pavement (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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