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Definition of Burnt-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 Burnt-out
Literary usage of Burnt-out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... (lawyer from the E. Shore) driving a one-horse wagon containing his bedding
and other property of his quarters. He said he had just been burnt out—at ..."
2. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"... sloops from Providence went down upon the ship at Hope Isld, but failed &
burnt out without doing Execution. ..."
3. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer". by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"But my candle is burnt out, and I must bid you good night." . "Sunday Night. "
It has rained so steadily all day that I took for ..."
4. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1904)
"... that she might involuntarily shake it off in her pain, and might thus be said
to sacrifice. She held her hand steady until the fire was burnt out. ..."
5. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"... when the old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out of its ashes.
Goethe. Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt—Like the starry heavens, ..."
6. The Every Day Book of History and Chronology: Embracing the Anniversaries of by Joel Munsell (1858)
"A fire in Boston destroyed a block in North street, where 80 families were burnt
out, and 9 lives lost. JULY 30. 578. ..."
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