(p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(2) Chemical analysis of the smoke concensate of bidis and cigarettes showed that condensate from bidis had a higher benzo[a]pyrene level than was observed in cigarette smoke condensate, when compared on the basis of the mass (mg) burnt.
(3) We believe that 'neuromuscular and vascular hamartoma' is not a hamartomatous condition but may be seen as part of the histological spectrum of Crohn's disease, possibly in a chronic and 'burnt out' phase.
(4) The authors present a retrospective investigation concerning 49 EEG performed on 45 patients from five months to nineteen years old, presenting a burnt skin surface of between 1% and 70%.
(5) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
(6) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(7) Associate professor Ian O’Hara from Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities is leading a $5.7m project (with $2.1m Arena funding ) to convert the industry’s crop wastes (which are usually either burnt or left to degrade) into renewable fuels for farming and transportation.
(8) Divers have found the body of one of two oil workers who were missing after four others were badly burnt by an explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
(9) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(10) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(11) Twenty cows and 20 uncalved 20 month old heifers with severely burnt teats were studied.
(12) Pulsatile release of luteinising hormone was found in control subjects but was absent or diminished in burnt patients with low serum testosterone concentrations.
(13) This must have happened while the rest of us were trying to avoid being burnt at the stake by raging Protestants and Patrick Harvie.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Burnt-out classrooms in Chibok, from where Boko Haram fighters seized 276 teenagers in April 2014.
(15) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(16) "The film has burnt everybody out for this year," says Allen, pointing out that the actors who play Will and Simon, Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, are pushing 28.
(17) After 20 days 4 sheets of cells of first subculture, each 10 cm in diameter, representing a surface of approximately 300 cm2, were implanted on the front of the left thigh, which was burnt third-degree deep.
(18) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(19) Sulfuric acid was carefully distilled off the burnt material.
(20) Howard Amos (@howardamos) Back outside the burnt out trade union building.
Sunburn
Definition:
(v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.
(n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temperature at 3 PM, sensitive skin type, youthfulness, and being male were also independently associated with sunburn.
(2) Skin diseases of the udder include viral infections, mange, sunburn, wounds, and staphylococcal dermatitis.
(3) A physical grading of some well-known sunburn protectors is described as a guide to the choice of preparation.
(4) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
(5) The following relative risks were identified: (1) All cases of SCC of the skin and matched controls: agricultural occupation 1.49, history of severe sunburn 1.49.
(6) In all tests, the combination of 7% octyl-dimethyl p-aminobenzoic acid ester and 3% oxybenzone was substantially more effective in protecting against sunburn than any other formula tested, including 5% p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA).
(7) The research, carried out by the British Association of Dermatologists, also revealed that a “shocking” 72% of people admitted having been sunburned in the previous year.
(8) Besides avoiding sunburn, other advice includes spending time in the shade, covering up and using a minimum factor 15 sunscreen.
(9) UVB-augmented release of IL-1-like activity peaked 1 h after irradiation and levels returned to baseline by 2 h. Release of IL-1-like activity from human skin after exposure to UV radiation may account for some of the local and systemic features of the sunburn response.
(10) Persons with skin types I and II were sometimes promised a safe, effective UVA tan that would protect against sunburn.
(11) A tendency to sunburn after 0.5 h midday summer sun exposure increased risk for uveal melanoma (burn with tanning RR = 1.5, P = 0.02; burn with little tanning RR = 1.8, P less than 0.001; burn with no tanning RR = 1.7, P = 0.002); as did exposure to UV or black lights (RR = 3.7, P = 0.003); and welding burn, sunburn of the eye, or snow blindness (RR = 7.2, P less than 0.001).
(12) More than one week later, following another dose of methotrexate, he experienced a second-degree burn in the areas of the prior sunburn, with sparing of chronically exposed areas on his face, neck, and arms.
(13) After all other predictors were controlled for, the body exposure index (which took into account time outside and hat, clothing, and sunscreen coverage) made a strong independent contribution to the explanation of sunburn (P < 0.001).
(14) Secondly, a study in Canadian school children revealed significantly higher naevus counts in subjects with numerous or severe episodes of sunburn in the previous 5 years.
(15) Sunburns in childhood are considered a major risk factor.
(16) The data suggest that ibuprofen is more effective than placebo for the relief of symptoms associated with UV-B-induced inflammation after high dose UV-B phototherapy for psoriasis, but the drug has limited usefulness in the treatment of sunburn reaction from these same doses.
(17) "Everyone can enjoy the sun safely by keeping out of the heat at the hottest time of the day, avoiding sunburn and staying hydrated with plenty of cool drinks.
(18) Telephone survey respondents provided detailed accounts of activities engaged in, time spent outside, and hat, clothing, and sunscreen coverage in the 4 hr around the solar midday on both weekend days, as well as skin type, sociodemographic descriptors, and degree of sunburn experienced.
(19) The purpose of this study was to determine whether topical L-selenomethionine reduces the degree of acute damage to the skin (i.e., sunburn) induced by ultraviolet (UV) irradiation in humans.
(20) The genesis of the tumor is uncertain, however the cutaneous fair complexion, the number and type of pigmented nevei and acute intermittent sun exposure with sunburn may play a significant role in its development.