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burnt

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1. burnt - Adjective

2. burnt - Verb

Derived from burn

4. burnt - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Burn

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis Brandeis

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. Buchi Emecheta

A burnt child dreads the fire. English Proverb

Who has burnt himself with soup will blow on water as well. Estonian Proverb

It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down. Italian Proverb

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