Definition of Burned-out

1. Adjective. Exhausted as a result of longtime stress. "She was burned-out before she was 30"

Exact synonyms: Burnt-out
Similar to: Tired

2. Adjective. Inoperative as a result of heat or friction. "A burned-out picture tube"
Exact synonyms: Burnt-out
Similar to: Unserviceable

3. Adjective. Destroyed or badly damaged by fire. "Barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
Exact synonyms: Burned, Burned-over, Burnt, Burnt-out
Similar to: Destroyed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burned-out

burn one's candle at both ends
burn one's fingers
burn out
burn plant
burn rubber
burn the midnight oil
burn to a crisp
burn units
burn up
burnable
burnables
burndown
burndowns
burne
burned
burned-out (current term)
burned down
burned out
burner
burner syndrome
burners
burnest
burnet
burnet bloodwort
burneth
burnets
burnettize
burnettized
burnettizes
burnettizing

Literary usage of Burned-out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"The port-fire burned out, and he again advanced and relit it. It again failed, and, procuring a musket, ..."

2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"The •wire resistances in the Westinghouse low-equivalent arresters liave also burned out in several cases. Objection is made to the wire resistance that the ..."

3. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"May Carbon be Burned Out of Steel ?—Experiments made at the Laboratory of the ... successive heatings, the carbon in the outside of the bar is burned out. ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"At that moment nine houses in the village were burned out. ... At Suippes, the big market town which has been practically burned out, German soldiers ..."

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