the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
past-participle. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Consumed or scorched by fire.
Crumbly, and partly or entirely unweldable, from having been raised to too high a temperature in contact with the air: said of iron and steel. The nature of the change which the metal undergoes is not yet clearly understood.
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adj. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
adj. destroyed or badly damaged by fire
adj. ruined by overcooking
Word Usage
"With those 'records of the past,' which my old friend Stillinghast ought to have _eaten_ up years ago, you have burnt up legacies to orphans, benefactions to widows, and many noble charities with it -- _if it was burnt_, "added Mr. Fielding."