The cake was burnt to a cinder (=completely burnt).burnt1 burnt2 adjective
burntburnt1 /bɜːnt $ bɜːrnt/ especially British English 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- All over Bosnia, dwellings are burnt out, uninhabitable, or simply not there any more.
- Buckingham was arrested: he went to the block whilst poor Taplow was burnt at Smithfield.
- I mean, she could've burnt the house down that night she put the lighted paper through the letter box.
- I tried to pick him up and that's when I burnt myself.
- Return the dough to a clean bowl, cover it with a damp 1 Caramel coloring is simply burnt sugar.
- The monster's blood burnt away the grass on Dragon's hill.
- These, they gleaned, were being taken off to be burnt.
- This is no good, she told herself, as the fierce ruins burnt round her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The cake was burnt to a cinder (=completely burnt). Suspected witches were burnt at the stake.
the past tense and past participle of burn The cake was burnt to a cinder (=completely burnt). Suspected witches were burnt at the stake.burnt1 burnt2 adjective
burntburnt2 ●●○ adjective EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there, and set the green columns aglow.
- I then apply a very watery burnt sienna to the parts to maintain some warmth amongst the shadows.
- Sprinkle with sugar for extra crunch or drizzle with burnt brandy as described in the introduction to this recipe, and serve.
- The black coloration is due to charcoal fragments from burnt wood.
- The smell of burnt powder seemed to hang around him in a cloud.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The cake was burnt to a cinder (=completely burnt). Suspected witches were burnt at the stake.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
The cake was burnt to a cinder (=completely burnt). Suspected witches were burnt at the stake.· I've no wish to see the hungry rafters sitting down to plates of burnt offerings.· We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering.
· I then apply a very watery burnt sienna to the parts to maintain some warmth amongst the shadows.· White acrylic mixed with cadmium orange, yellow ochre or burnt sienna allows Martin to overlap and cross-hatch.
· Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there, and set the green columns aglow.· This is a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber applied to previously dampened paper.· A burnt umber man in a raw sienna compartment.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- I've no wish to see the hungry rafters sitting down to plates of burnt offerings.
- We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering.
WORD FAMILYnounburnburneradjectiveburningburntverbburnadverbburning
1damaged or hurt by burning: burnt toast2burnt offering a)something that is offered as a gift to a god by being burnt on an altar b)British English humorous food that you accidentally burnt while you were cooking it