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burnt

[ burnt ]

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verb

Fine Arts.
1. of or showing earth pigments that have been calcined and changed to a deeper and warmer color:
  burnt ocher.
2. of or showing colors having a deeper or grayer hue than is usually associated with them:
  burnt orange; burnt rose.

burnt

/ ��ɜː�Գ� /

affected by or as if by burning; charred
(of various pigments, such as ochre and orange) calcined, with a resultant darkening of colour

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Origin of burnt¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, for the adjective

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In Galloway Forest Park, in south-west Scotland, an estimated 65 sq km burnt, nearly a quarter of the UK total.

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While he may have burnt bridges with influential boxing people down to a crisp, Eubank is perfectly capable of single-handedly promoting a fight.

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He’d reinvented the guitar neck and was kind of burnt out on it — couldn’t do much more with the thing.

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One man said he was told if anyone removed the flags, "their house will be burnt".

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"I need the pressure - but I also hate it because I get so stressed and so burnt out so easily," she says.

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