Burnt
//bɜːnt// adj, noun, verb, slang
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Char. informal, uncountable
"You might also try 5star PBX organic cleaner. This stuff is amazing. Found at your local beer and wine brewers supply store, this stuff will clean the "burnt" off the bottom of your pans."
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of burn Commonwealth, UK, form-of, participle, past
"I burnt the toast."
Adjective
- 1 Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
"The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital."
- 2 Carbonised.
"The toast was too burnt to eat."
- 3 Having a sunburn.
- 4 Being darker than standard, especially browner.
Adjective
- 1 ruined by overcooking wordnet
- 2 destroyed or badly damaged by fire wordnet
- 3 treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point wordnet
Example
More examples"You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette."
Etymology
From burn + -t.
Related phrases
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.