burned-over
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈbɜrnədˌoʊvər/
- US
:
quemado
- Three local courthouses also burned over the years, destroying records that might have shed further light on the history of the college.
Examples
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Tuan has also found evidence that Chinese farmers sometimes burned down forests to encourage the growth of small-sized sprouts in the burnt-over area in order to save themselves the labor of splitting wood!
Academic text (1993) -
The forest was a burned-over wasteland after the wildfire swept through it last summer.
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What we picked probably constituted the first crop of the 'burnt-over land.' " 50
Academic text (2009) -
They grew up in the hotbed of American religious experience in the burned-over district in New York in the early 19th century.
Blog text (19) -
I watch the History Channel and hear the scientist exclaim how the state of Iowa burned over a million years ago from a soil sample or carbon dating, etc.
Blog text (13) -
In both cases, the descriptions of the berries are almost identical, as is the suggestion that these berries were growing in burned-over land.
Academic text (2009) -
Despite the massive amount of acreage burned over the past decade in the Los Padres National Forest in California, the Deputy Supervisor said that chaparral there was not suffering.
Blog text (8) -
Despite the devastation caused by such fires to homes, businesses, timber, and farmland, the environmental conditions that resulted caused an increase in berry crops, which tend to thrive in burned-over areas.
Academic text (2009) -
These burnt-out structural frames rose impressively from the ashes of the burned-over section where occasional piles of rubble or twisted steel skeletons marked the location of brick or steel frame structures.
Blog text (9) -
The burned-over fields lay barren and lifeless, a sad reminder of the devastation caused by the fire.
Synonyms
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3.8
A place or thing that is very badly damaged, often used for buildings and companies
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6.9
Become completely destroyed or lost suddenly, often by fire
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4.3
Badly damaged or destroyed by fire
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6.4
Completely destroyed by fire so nothing remains but burned pieces
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5.3
Badly damaged or destroyed, like a building after a disaster
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4.6
Burned and dried by strong heat such as fire or hot sun
Damaged by fire or very strong heat
Antonyms
How Burned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word burned-over comes from the simple parts burn and over, meaning the fire went 'over' the land and left it burned. So imagine a fire moving 'across' a field and destroying everything; that is why we call that area burned-over.