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burnt 音标拼音: [b'ɚnt] vbl. 燃烧 燃烧 burnt adj 1: ruined by overcooking; " she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits" [ synonym: { burned}, { burnt}] 2: treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; " burnt sienna" [ synonym: { burned}, { burnt}] 3: 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" [ synonym: { burned}, { burnt}, { burned- over}, { burned- out}, { burnt- out}] Burn \ Burn\ ( b[^ u] rn), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Burned} ( b[^ u] rnd) or { Burnt} ( b[^ u] rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Burning}.] [ OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. b[ ae] rnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ ae] nde, Sw. br[ aum] nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan ( in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. " We' ll burn his body in the holy place." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one' s face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. [ 1913 Webster] This tyrant fever burns me up. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ?? ass as fire. -- Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. [ 1913 Webster] { To burn}, { To burn together}, as two surfaces of metal ( Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. { To burn a bowl} ( Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. { To burn daylight}, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. -- Shak. { To burn one' s fingers}, to get one' s self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. { To burn out}, ( a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. " Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" -- Shak. ( b) to force ( people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen. { To be burned out}, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one' s house, store, or shop, with the contents. { To burn up}, { To burn down}, to burn entirely. [ 1913 Webster]
Burnt \ Burnt\, p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. [ 1913 Webster] { Burnt ear}, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See { Smut}. { Burnt offering}, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also { burnt sacrifice}. --[ 2 Sam. xxiv. 22.] [ 1913 Webster]
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