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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overburn.

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Examples

  • Not concrete color, not cold glass color, not the color of overburned brick or harshly pigmented paint.

    The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011

  • She is overburned as a governor yet is thought to want to be the president of an entire country.

    Palin says she is not a quitter 2009

  • The reason behind the cuts to the budgets they're overburned the reason behind the crowded clinics are illegals just like this family.

    Saving Carlos: The face of California's crisis 2010

  • Granted, lots of doctors are overburned with patients and our for-profit medical system, but that also means you need to keep current and not assume he/she knows everything just because the doctor is the so-called expert.

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  • Granted, lots of doctors are overburned with patients and our for-profit medical system, but that also means you need to keep current and not assume he/she knows everything just because the doctor is the so-called expert.

    Caution for Asians on epilepsy drug GreenFertility 2009

  • For years, in the New York office, we -- the term is overburned the number of agents working counterterrorism cases.

    CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2004 2004

  • If it turns out that this is some bootleg you bought that was overburned to

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • If it turns out that this is some bootleg you bought that was overburned to 90 minute CD-Rs, well, it's certainly possible that we're all correct.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • If it turns out that this is some bootleg you bought that was overburned to 90 minute CD-Rs, well, it's certainly possible that we're all correct.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • If it turns out that this is some bootleg you bought that was overburned to 90 minute CD-Rs, well, it's certainly possible that we're all correct.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

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