The Collaborative International Dictionary
burned-out \burned-out\ burnt-out \burnt-out\adj. prenom.
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drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; -- of people.
Syn: burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).
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damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.
Syn: burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate).
WordNet
adj. exhausted as a result of long-time stress; "she was burned-out before she was 30" [syn: burnt-out]
inoperative as a result of heat or friction; "a burned-out picture tube" [syn: burnt-out]
destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars" [syn: burned, burnt, burnt-out]
Usage examples of "burned-out".
Rounding a Turn of the uphill road, they looked out on a broad panorama of the base: docks, cranes, nests of destroyers and of submarines-and the terrible smashed half-sunk battleships, burned-out aircraft, and blackened skeletal hangars.
I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
President wore black out of respect for those killed in the Marrakech helicopter crash, for the guards in the prison van and for the CIA agent and Moroccan officer whose bodies had been found in a burned-out car.
And when the Rebels moved out of a position, they left nothing behind them except burned-out foundations and ashes.
Ben and his command roared through the burned-out remains of Umpqua and a few miles later could see the smoke rising from the besieged town of Rose-burg.
They marched through a field of something similar to wheat, passed a recently burned-out hut, and hit one of the tracks that Yao Che had predicted would be there.
The fact that the Greeks were able to hold their own in the burned-out cities of Attica is hardly the stuff of military glory.
Most especially not now, when the dwarf clans were at war, their drumbeats throbbing late at night and the smoke from burned-out burrows hanging in the air.
They were entering a district of factories and warehouses, of streets that even litterbugs ignored and whose gutters overflowed with filth, of alleys choked with honeysuckle, of cracked masonry and burned-out hulks, of stark desolation softened only by the draperies of the honeysuckle vines.
The physical evidence was impressive enough, what with the burned-out police car and the scorched and dented motorhome, not to mention the scrapes and bruises on the officers who had been knocked around.
No trees grew here, though there were stumps and patches of burned-out forest.
Abandoned and burned-out cars were strewn all over the streets, and here and there they could make out huddled bodies lying on the sidewalks and in store entrances.
The smith-engineer sagged against the burned-out laser, and his body still shook as the waves of unseen whiteness hammered at him, as he twitched in the grip of chaos and terror unseen to those beside him and around him.
Taking me back to the burned-out jungle in Biafra where fear grew thicker than the vines.
Now it stood alone, blackened and charred but whole, while all around it skeletal remains of burned-out homes teetered for blocks, frameworks leaning on lumps of fused brick, so that occasionally a charcoaled timber snapped of its own weight and came crashing down to break an eerie silence that spread from here to the uptown house where the pillar of fire had once raged, and beyond.