Difference between Burnt and Burned

What is the difference between Burnt and Burned?

Burnt as a verb is to cause to be consumed by fire. while Burned as a verb is to cause to be consumed by fire.

Burnt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to be consumed by fire. To cause to be consumed by fire.

Example sentence: In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

Burned

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to be consumed by fire.To cause to be consumed by fire.

Example sentence: I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

We hope you now know whether to use Burnt or Burned in your sentence.

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