The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BURNT
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More clues leading to the result BURNT
- Overenthusiastically toasted end of graduation in Lancaster?
- Beef starter to turn out badly?
- Lancaster encompasses what ends in Dresden being this
- Service parts only went up
- Exhausted ticket seller after sting
- Sailors in revolutionary vessel destroyed by fire
- Polish up hide of neat? Maybe overzealous tanner did
- Exhausted from Kindle all in French!
- Inflamed with passion only involving our navy
- Reservation about navy being toasted
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "being this" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case being this = burnt.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BURNT mean?
BURNT verb- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- To cauterize.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- To betray.
- To insult or defeat.
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
- To discard.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
- (of food) Carbonised.
- (of a person) Having a sunburn.
- (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.