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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
burned
adj
  1. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point; "burnt sienna"
    Synonym(s): burned, burnt
  2. 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(s): burned, burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out
  3. ruined by overcooking; "she served us underdone bacon and burnt biscuits"
    Synonym(s): burned, burnt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burn \Burn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burned} ([?]) or {Burnt}
      ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Burning}.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v.
      t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS.
      b[91]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[91]nde, Sw. br[84]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. [bd]We'll burn his body in the holy place.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      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.
  
      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.
  
      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.
  
      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.
  
                     This tyrant fever burns me up.            --Shak.
  
                     This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden.
  
                     When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth
                     the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
                     consumeth the grass as fire.               --Ecclus.
                                                                              xliii. 20, 21.
  
      6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
  
      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.
  
      {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}, to destroy or obliterate by burning. [bd]Must
            you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?[b8] --Shak.
  
      {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burned \Burned\, p. p.
      Burnished. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burned \Burned\, p. p. & a.
      See {Burnt}.
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