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# burnt

«burnt» in Mova's school dictionary: **Damaged or destroyed by fire or heat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past and past participle of «burn» (burn, burns, burnt or burned, burning); adjective (burnt)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Damaged or destroyed by fire or heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#m1)

2) Cooked too long so it is black or dark and tastes bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#m2)

3) Hurt by fire, heat, the sun or a strong chemical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#m3)

4) Used up as fuel, like wood, coal or calories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, «I burnt my hand» needs cool running water for many minutes; burnt toast sets off smoke alarms. In science, burning is a chemical change that cannot be undone: burnt paper turns to ash and smoke. Phrases: «burnt toast», «burnt to a crisp», «burnt out» (very tired, or a fire that has stopped), «get burnt».

### examples

- I burnt the toast and the smoke alarm went off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x1)
- She burnt her finger on the hot pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x2)
- The old barn burnt down in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x3)
- Burnt wood cannot turn back into a tree — it is an irreversible change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x4)
- His back was burnt by the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x5)
- The cookies smelled burnt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x6)
- We burnt dry sticks on the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x7)
- Running hard burnt lots of energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x8)
- It is burnt to a cinder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/#x9)

### note

«Burnt» and «burned» are both correct; «burnt» is more common in British English, «burned» in American English. As an adjective before a noun, «burnt» is usual everywhere: «burnt toast». For a burn, cool it under cold running water for about twenty minutes and tell an adult; no butter or ice.

### In the corpora

- [Toast turns brown because sugars and proteins react into new substances; burnt toast is black because it has partly turned into carbon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/11/)
- [A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum slipped carrying a pot and burnt her leg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave/16/)
- ["You can't get burnt when it's cloudy," says your big sister, and comes home pink.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/2/)
- [The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/8/)
- [And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.589/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «burnt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burnt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.