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dictionary.com lists verb forms as burned or burnt in American English, and burnt or burned for the British English version. Meriam-Webster is, I assume, American-focused, and lists burned or burnt as verb forms of burn, in that order. All the above show burnt as an adjective in both English variants, and burned as a verb only. So your example ...
The British intended to burn the building to the ground. They set fire to the southern wing first. The flames grew so quickly that the British were prevented from collecting enough wood to burn the stone walls completely. However, the Library of Congress's contents in the northern wing contributed to the flames on that side. [29]
burnt 27 November 1531 Smithfield, London [13] 5. John Tewkesbury: St Michael-le-Querne Parish, Paternoster Row, London leatherseller burnt December 1531 Smithfield, London [14] 6. 'An old man' Buckinghamshire: burnt 1531 [15] [n 1] 7. Davy Foster Yorkshire: poor artificer burnt 1531 [16] [17] 8. James Bainham: Middle Temple, London lawyer ...
The irregular form tends to indicate duration, whereas the regular form often describes a short-term action (The fire burned for weeks. vs. He burnt his finger.), and in American English, the regular form is associated with the literal sense of a verb, while the irregular form with a figurative one.
However, in American English, burned and burnt have different usages. Several verbs have different past tenses or past participles in American and British English: The past tense of the verb "to dive" is most commonly found as "dived" in British and New Zealand English. "Dove" is sometimes used in its place in American English. [136]
Voltaire's works were burnt several times in pre-revolutionary France. In his Lettres philosophique, published in Rouen in 1734, he described British attitudes toward government, literature, and religion, and clearly implied that the British constitutional monarchy was better than the French absolute one – which led to the book being burned.
Burned or burnt may refer to: Anything which has undergone combustion Burned (image) , quality of an image transformed with loss of detail in all portions lighter than some limit, and/or those darker than some limit
On 20 November 1992, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch.The castle suffered extensive damage and was fully repaired within the next five years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates.