burned

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Do you know why No, father; tell us Long ago, my lad, there were a lot of brave people brought just there where the angel stands; they were tied to stakes in the ground and set fire to and burned--burned until they died Burned, father?"

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  1. Burned coating a technical term applied, in a figurative sense, by electroplaters to a metallic deposit of unsatisfactory appearance and character.

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  • Her throat burned, burned, burned, the car spun, spun, spun. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • His house and gin-house had been burned, his fields laid waste; he had left his young daughters without protection and without shelter. —  Memories
  • This road was torn up for a considerable distance to the rear (west), the ties burned, and the rails bent and twisted by heating them over the burning ties. —  Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant v2
  • Too soon My lungs burned, my heart pounded, but I didn't let up. —  Analog, March 2002
  • Three years after George Washington's birth it is said to have been burned, and the family for this or some other reason removed to another estate in what is now Stafford County. —  George Washington, Vol. I
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