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burnt in

burnt in is the simple past and past participle of burn in.

Meaning of burn in

Verb

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

  1. To eat into, as fire.
  2. (transitive) To fix and render durable, as colours, by means of intense heat.
  3. (figuratively) To imprint indelibly on the mind.
  4. (transitive) To exercise electrical components by means of burn-in.

Questions about burnt in

What is burnt in the simple past and past participle of?
Burnt in is the simple past and past participle of burn in.

Words near burnt in in the dictionary

  1. burnt down
  2. burnt ear
  3. burnt ears
  4. burnt ends
  5. Burnt Hills
  6. burnt in
  7. Burnt Islands
  8. burnt knight
  9. burnt knights
  10. burnt lime
  11. Burnt Oak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burnt in (page history and authors); burn in (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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