burned

English

Alternative forms

burnt

Etymology

The past tense is inherited from Middle English burnede. The past participle (from which the adjective is also derived) is inherited from Middle English burned. Synchronically, both forms are equivalent to burn +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːnd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝnd/
(Northumbria) IPA^(key): /bɔːnd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nd

Adjective

burned (comparative more burned, superlative most burned)

Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process.
- 1985, Ervin G. Schuster, Below-cost Timber Sales, page 46:
  Creating more burned range, which is not available in severe winters, would be of no use.
- 2014, Gregory William Mank, The Very Witching Time of Night, page 17:
  It burned around her face, around her breast and arm and face—she was very burned. And her hair was burned, and ... oh God.
- 2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer:
  That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.
- 2019, Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't, page 148:
  Few photos were even taken of the inner side of the closet door, so that only witness memories—police and firefighter witness memories—can attest to which side was more burned.

Derived terms

Translations

consumed by fire

Esperanto: bruligita (eo)

Verb

burned

simple past and past participle of burn

Anagrams

Burden, bunder, burden, unbred

Middle English

Etymology

As a past participle, inherited from the Old English weak participle suffixes Old English -ed and -od. As a past tense, formed by apocope from the fully articulated Middle English past tense burnede.

Verb

burned

inflection of burnen:
1. past
2. past participle