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What is the adjective for burnt?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs burn and burninate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

burning
  1. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  2. Feeling very hot.
  3. Feeling great passion.
  4. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. flaming, blazing, fiery, ablaze, aflame, alight, ignited, afire, lighted, lit, kindled, enflamed, inflamed, conflagrant, combusting, glowing, raging, scorching, smouldering, flaring, flickering, smoldering, roaring, enkindled, live, oxidising, oxidizing, smoking, smoky, on fire, in flames, red-hot, searing, aglow, red, hot, vaporous, incandescent, sizzling, roasting, baking, blistering, brilliant, ardent, red hot, fervent, lit up, empyreal, igneous … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The creature's grin pulled wider as it reached down and picked up a burning timber from the fire.”
      “The reporter said that officers had forced him to sit for hours under the burning sun.”
      “It was always her burning ambition to see her mother's name cleared.”
burnt
  1. Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
  2. (of food) Carbonised.
  3. (of a person) Having a sunburn.
  4. (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. charred, burned, incinerated, scorched, blistered, seared, singed, cooked, parched, scalded, blackened, charbroiled, burnt to a crisp, burned up, reduced to ashes, marked, branded, consumed, cauterised, cauterized, torched, carbonised, burnt-out, carbonized … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The row of trees died instantly. The burnt leaves gathered into knee-high dumps beneath.”
burnable
  1. Able to be burned; combustible
  2. Synonyms:
      3. flammable, combustible, inflammable, ignitable, combustive, ignitible, fiery, touchy, incendiary, explosive, volatile, unstable, combusting, kindling, eruptive, labile, vaporescent, evaporative, vaporous, detonative, fulminant, fulminating, detonating, fire-producing, fire-raising … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “General household waste is collected once a week but it must be separated into burnable and non-burnable items.”
      “Everything burnable was begged, collected, dragged, piled up and then guarded night and day.”
      “In order to convert soft powdery coal dust into a solid burnable unit, a special binding agent had to be developed.”
burnlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a burn.
burnproof
  1. Resistant to burning.
burned
  1. simple past tense of burn
  2. past participle of burn
  3. Synonyms:
      4. lost, expended, squandered, wasted, blew, burnt, depleted, drained, exhausted, outlaid, spent, burned up, consumed, dispensed with, dissipated, laid out, ran through, shelled out, splurged, suffered the loss of, used up, went through, burned through, coughed up, discharged, frittered away, stopped having, threw away, wasted away, disinherited, dispossessed, divested, fiddled away, lavished, misspent, sacrificed, trifled away, absorbed, devoured, absorpt, played out, got through, gotten through, gone through, been through, drew down, eaten up, drawn down, ate up, milked … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The burned leaves stick to my shoes and clothes, catch on my face just long enough for me to smell the smoke on them.”
burninating
  1. present participle of burninate
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