burned
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,165 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,148 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point also: burnt burnt sienna
- destroyed or badly damaged by fire also: burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out a row of burned housesa charred bit of burnt wood
- ruined by overcooking also: burnt she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits
burned in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Are we really so badly burned, that we should scream so loud?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Then the eyes were burned out and irons were thrust down his throat.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset’s embers, While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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On the bank, and in a small woods-opening, burned two fires, their smoke ducking and twisting under the buffeting of the wind.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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It was in process of rebuilding, for in 1381 it had been first plundered and then burned by the insurgents under Wat Tyler.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1