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Definition of Burned-out

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

2. Adjective. Inoperative as a result of heat or friction. "A burned-out picture tube"

3. Adjective. Destroyed or badly damaged by fire. "Barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"

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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