The Collaborative International Dictionary
burn out \burn out\ v. i.
To burn till the fuel is exhausted; as, when the candle burned out the room was totally dark; the firefighters couldn't control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself.
To stop functioning due to failure of some component caused by the heat of the electrical current used in its operation; -- of electrical devices.
To become apathetic or depressed, and cease to function effectively, due to the fatigue and frustration of prolonged stress and overwork; -- of people; as, the stress in the bond market is so great that many traders burn out after only ten years on the job.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To extinguish due to lack of fuel. 2 (context idiomatic English) To tire due to overwork. 3 (context idiomatic English) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Burn Out is the second album by Christian pop punk band Slick Shoes, released in 1998.
"Burn Out" is the sixth episode in the seventh season of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, set in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Burn Out", a song by Sipho Mabuse, became one of the first major crossover hits in South Africa during the early 1980s, selling more than 500,000 copies.
Over the years the song has been remixed and covered by other artists, such as Timothy Moloi on the album Love That Music.
Usage examples of "burn out".
With only a very little luck, a direct hit could set up a harmonic fit to burn out any sidewall generator, but it was a cumbersome, slow-firing, mass-intensive weapon, and its maximum range under optimum circumstances was barely a hundred thousand kilometers.