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burnt through

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

Meaning of burn through

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To use up in a hasty or destructive manner.
    • Near-synonyms: run through, get through, eat up

Questions about burnt through

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

Words near burnt through in the dictionary

  1. burnt the candle at both ends
  2. burnt the coal
  3. burnt the midnight oil
  4. burnt the roof
  5. burnt the water
  6. burnt through
  7. burnt to a crisp
  8. burnt toast theory
  9. burnt umber
  10. burnt umbers
  11. burnt up

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