ADJECTIVE
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destroyed or badly damaged by fire
a charred bit of burnt wood
a row of burned houses
barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
a burned-over site in the forest
How To Use burned-over In A Sentence
- The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb. Tragedy and Comedy of Life
- a burned-over site in the forest
