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burnt

adjective as in burned

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On a fishing trip, Nick gets off the train in his boyhood terrain, the wilderness of northern Michigan, and finds himself in a burnt, desolate, war-like landscape.

The footage showed rescue workers inspecting the burnt out remnants of a vehicle and covering a nearby badly-mangled body of a child with a white sheet.

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Debris from last night's violence can be seen strewn on the ground around the entrance, along with a burnt out Garda van.

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"At the time we thought all the kit had been burnt but we think some of it might have been stolen, because we couldn't see any burnt reels on the ground," he said.

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Feeling stressed or burnt out isn't the same as having clinical burnout - even if we often use the term loosely.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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