Definition of "burned-over" [burned-over]

• Destroyed or badly damaged by fire (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb."
• "In his seminal book on the Pacific Northwest, The Good Rain, New York Times writer Timothy Egan described the city thusly: "Surrounded by thick stumps, burned-over land and eroded hillsides, Forks is to the Olympic Peninsula what a butt rash is to Venus.""
• "As the great revival movement surged outward, and its missionary campaigns and camp meetings, its “personal decisions for Christ,” became all the rage from the “burned-over district” of western New York State down through the Appalachians and across the South, Jackson found ready support for a rekindled spirit of American chosenness."