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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
burnt at the stake
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Suspected witches were burnt at the stake .
burnt to a cinder (= completely burnt )
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The cake was burnt to a cinder .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be burnt out
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All over Bosnia, dwellings are burnt out, uninhabitable, or simply not there any more.
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As a result many people are burnt out.
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Garage fire: One car was burnt out and two others damaged in a garage blaze near Northallerton.
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Instead of resting in dressing-rooms between shows, the Girls were burnt out coping with double and tripling.
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One lorry was burnt out and a fire officers car was also damaged.
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This time more than 20 cars were burnt out.
be burnt to a frazzle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All over Bosnia, dwellings are burnt out, uninhabitable, or simply not there any more.
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Buckingham was arrested: he went to the block whilst poor Taplow was burnt at Smithfield.
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I mean, she could've burnt the house down that night she put the lighted paper through the letter box.
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I tried to pick him up and that's when I burnt myself.
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Return the dough to a clean bowl, cover it with a damp 1 Caramel coloring is simply burnt sugar.
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The monster's blood burnt away the grass on Dragon's hill.
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These, they gleaned, were being taken off to be burnt .
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This is no good, she told herself, as the fierce ruins burnt round her.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
offering
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I've no wish to see the hungry rafters sitting down to plates of burnt offerings .
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We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering .
sienna
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I then apply a very watery burnt sienna to the parts to maintain some warmth amongst the shadows.
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White acrylic mixed with cadmium orange, yellow ochre or burnt sienna allows Martin to overlap and cross-hatch.
umber
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Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there, and set the green columns aglow.
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This is a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber applied to previously dampened paper.
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A burnt umber man in a raw sienna compartment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there, and set the green columns aglow.
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I then apply a very watery burnt sienna to the parts to maintain some warmth amongst the shadows.
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Sprinkle with sugar for extra crunch or drizzle with burnt brandy as described in the introduction to this recipe, and serve.
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The black coloration is due to charcoal fragments from burnt wood.
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The smell of burnt powder seemed to hang around him in a cloud.