Definitions
How to pronounce burnt:
Burnt - as an adjective satellite
Ruined by overcooking
Example: "She served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits"
Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
Example: "Burnt sienna"
Destroyed or badly damaged by fire
Example: "A row of burned houses"
Burnt - as a verb
To cause to be consumed by fire.
Example: "He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
Example: "He watched the house burn."
To overheat so as to make unusable.
Example: "He burned the toast. the blacksmith burned the steel."
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
Example: "The grill was too hot and the steak burned."
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
Example: "To burn a hole; to burn letters into a block"
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
Example: "She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."
To cauterize.
To sunburn.
Example: "She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
Example: "To burn the mouth with pepper"
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
Example: "The child's forehead was burning with fever. her cheeks burned with shame."
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
Example: "A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen"
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Example: "Copper burns in chlorine."
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a rom chip.
Example: "We’ll burn this program onto an eeprom one hour before the demo begins."
To betray.
Example: "The informant burned him."
To insult or defeat.
Example: "I just burned you again."
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
Example: "The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
Example: "You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!"
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
(of an element) to be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
To discard.
To shoot someone with a firearm.
Burnt - as an adjective
Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
(of food) carbonised.
Example: "The toast was too burnt to eat."
(of a person) having a sunburn.
(of a colour) being darker than standard, especially browner.
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Word Game Points
BURNT has a SCRABBLE points total of 7.
BURNT has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 10.
BURNT has a WORDFEUD points total of 9.