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say it: burnt
burnt is an adjective meaning "ruined by overcooking". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burnt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.