BURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burned mean? 

• BURNED (adjective)
  The adjective BURNED has 3 senses:

1. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

2. destroyed or badly damaged by fire

3. ruined by overcooking

  Familiarity information: BURNED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

Synonyms:

burned; burnt

Context example:

burnt sienna

Similar:

treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroyed or badly damaged by fire

Synonyms:

burned; burned-out; burned-over; burnt; burnt-out

Context example:

barricaded the street with burnt-out cars

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ruined by overcooking

Synonyms:

burned; burnt

Context example:

she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

A poisonous chemical found in some foods and plants, tobacco smoke, and when certain substances are burned.

(Cyanide, NCI Dictionary)

The other is a man’s, sun-burned, discoloured, and also pierced for an earring.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A solid composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) wrapped in a paper cylinder whereby one end is burned.

(Cigarette Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Over the course of the six-week study, the researchers found the men who exercised before breakfast burned twice as much fat as those who exercised after breakfast.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A chemical that comes from certain substances when they are not burned completely.

(Benzo(a)pyrene, NCI Dictionary)

You may need it if you have been badly burned, have liver failure or a severe infection.

(Blood Transfusion and Donation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

You can suffocate or be burned.

(Fires, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

These papers have all been burned by the murderers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In traditional Chinese medicine, a type of heat therapy in which an herb is burned on or above the skin to warm and stimulate an acupuncture point or affected area.

(Moxibustion, NCI Dictionary)

A type of chemical formed when coal, oil, gas, garbage, tobacco, meat, and other substances are burned.

(PAH, NCI Dictionary)