burned-over

1. 1.

   destroyed or badly damaged by fire

   “a row of burned houses”

   “a charred bit of burnt wood”

   “a burned-over site in the forest”

   “barricaded the street with burnt-out cars”

   Synonymsburnedburntburned-outburnt-out

   Similardestroyed

Questions about burned-over

What does burned-over mean?

burned-over means "destroyed or badly damaged by fire".

How many syllables are in burned-over?

burned-over has 4 syllables: bur-ne-d-o-ver. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for burned-over?

Close synonyms include burned, burnt, burned-out, burnt-out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burned-over a common word?

burned-over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.