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slow-burned

slow-burned is the simple past and past participle of slow-burn.

Meaning of slow-burn

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, rare) To emerge or unfold slowly.
    • When the Missouri-born 26-year-old released her debut album last September, it marked the beginning of a slow-burning second act in pop. [see title]2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian

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Questions about slow-burned

What is slow-burned the simple past and past participle of?
Slow-burned is the simple past and past participle of slow-burn.

Words near slow-burned in the dictionary

  1. slow worms
  2. slow-acting
  3. slow-bellies
  4. slow-belly
  5. slow-burn
  6. slow-burned
  7. slow-burning
  8. slow-burns
  9. slow-contact
  10. slow-cook
  11. slow-cooked

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