Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not burned; not consumed or injured by fire.
  • Not baked, as brick.

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  • adjective Not burned.

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Examples

  • Smog has two main building blocks: hydrocarbons, such as unburned gasoline, and nitrogen oxides, or NOx, which are formed when hydrocarbons burn.

    Home 2010

  • Unlike other exhaust byproducts of internal combustion (such as unburned hydrocarbons) which can be reduced by making an engine run more efficiently, there is only one way to reduce the output of C02 -- burn less fuel.

    The American Spectator 2009

  • On that lectern in the trashed Pentagon was a dictionary, untouched, unburned, pages open -- as if inviting a passerby in the chaos to literally find meaning.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Ariz. fire triggers new evacuations 2011

  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Arizona Fire Forces More Evacuations Associated Press 2011

  • On that lectern in the trashed Pentagon was a dictionary, untouched, unburned, pages open -- as if inviting a passerby in the chaos to literally find meaning.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • I examined my unburned palm, holding the gun by the barrel with my left hand.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Arizona Fire Forces More Evacuations Associated Press 2011

  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Ariz. fire triggers new evacuations 2011

  • Simple decisions made toward being more active, even when we are not exercising, can help burn calories that would otherwise go unburned.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

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