Burned

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  injured \injured\ adj.
     1. having received an injury;-- usually used of physical or
        mental injury to persons. Opposite of {uninjured}.
        [Narrower terms: {abraded, scraped, skinned ;
        {battle-scarred, scarred}; {bit, bitten, stung ;
        {black-and-blue, livid ; {bruised, contused, contusioned


        ; {bruised, hurt, wounded ; {burned}; {cut, gashed,
        slashed, split ; {disabled, hors de combat, out of action
        ; {disjointed, dislocated, separated ; {hurt, wounded ;
        {lacerated, mangled, torn}; {maimed, mutilated ] Also See:
        {broken}, {damaged}, {damaged}, {impaired}, {unsound},
        {wronged}.
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     2. subjected to an injustice.
  
     Syn: aggrieved.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Burn \Burn\ (b[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burned} (b[^u]rnd)
     or {Burnt} (b[^u]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Burning}.] [OE.
     bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen,
     v. i., AS. b[ae]rnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to
     OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G.
     brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw.
     br[aum]nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in
     comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.]
     1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of
        heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn
        up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." --Shak.
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     2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some
        property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or
        heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char;
        to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face
        in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
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     3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the
        action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to
        destroy or change some property or properties of, by
        exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a
        desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn
        clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to
        produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
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     4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the
        application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn
        charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
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     5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by
        action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does;
        as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
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              This tyrant fever burns me up.        --Shak.
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              This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden.
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              When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth
              the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
              consumeth the ??ass as fire.          --Ecclus.
                                                    xliii. 20, 21.
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     6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
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     7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active
        agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as,
        a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each
        respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
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     {To burn}, {To burn together}, as two surfaces of metal
        (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a
        quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.
  
     {To burn a bowl} (Game of Bowls), to displace it
        accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be
        burned.
  
     {To burn daylight}, to light candles before it is dark; to
        waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --Shak.
  
     {To burn one's fingers}, to get one's self into unexpected
        trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others,
        speculation, etc.
  
     {To burn out},
        (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with
            hot irons burn out mine eyes?" --Shak.
        (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or
            places of business; as, the rioters burned out the
            Chinese businessmen.
  
     {To be burned out}, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of
        one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.
  
     {To burn up}, {To burn down}, to burn entirely.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Burned \Burned\, p. p. & a.
     See {Burnt}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Burned \Burned\, p. p.
     Burnished. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster] burned-out

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  burned
       adj 1: having undergone oxidation; "burned powder" [syn: {burnt}]
              [ant: {unburned}]
       2: injured by intense heat (as of fire or the sun); "his
          cracked, black burned lips"
       3: treated by heating to a high temperature but below the
          melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna" [syn: {burnt}]
       4: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks";
          "burned bricks" [syn: {baked}, {burnt}]
       5: destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned
          houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "barricaded the
          street with burnt-out cars" [syn: {burnt}, {burned-out}, {burnt-out}]
       6: ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and
          burnt buscuits" [syn: {burnt}]