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: burned-out]
inoperative as a result of heat or friction; "a burned-out picture tube" [syn: burned-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, burned-out]
Usage examples of "burnt-out".
One or two of the scattered fetal forms have black cans of burnt-out Sterno beside them.
No crumbling girders, no burnt-out boilers oxidizing their way to a rusty red heaven, no metal parts at all save the bright steel ribbons of the tracks reaching out interminably fore and aft.
Of burnt-out stars not even cinders were left, the last scraps of helium ash evanesced like table dust on a windy day.
The land became progressively swampier, yet somehow managed to retain that burnt-out look.
CHAPTER XXIX CONDEMNED TO DEATH Half an hour passed in silence, which was broken only by the footsteps of the sentries as they tramped, or rather loitered, up and down, or by the occasional fall of some calcined masonry from the walls of the burnt-out house.
For over twenty months the scores of burnt-out hulls piling up in Adirondack chasms were regarded as either suicides or inexplicable doze-behind-the-wheel-type single-car accidents by NNY State Troopers who had to detach their chinstraps to scratch under their big brown hats over the mysterious sleepiness that seemed to afflict Adirondack motorists at what looked to be high-adrenaline mountaintop passes.
The first engine proved to have a burnt-out bearing and Jason rebuilt it by melting down the original bearing metal and casting it in position.
The cobbles were littered with burst cushions and bongo drums, bones and burnt-out embers, all kicked about in a careless melee.
War's flotsam was guide enough: unburied men and horses swelling and stinking under the merciless sun, trampled canal banks where scores of beasts had drunk, a burnt-out barn that had served as a latrine for a regiment, discarded boots, a broken bow, a stolen carpet tossed aside as too heavy to be worth carrying.
Either I got better, or I fell, down, down, like a burning, then burnt-out star, from Belsize, to Caplan, to Wymark and finally, after Doctor Nolan and Mrs.
It must be a prodigious swarm gliding in from interplanetary space, the remains of some burnt-out comet that had disintegrated centuries ago.
The original farm building had caught fire some years previously, and was a burnt-out shell.
A man as wealthy as James Hamilton could find someone who didn't want to be found, even a wary, burnt-out ex-government agent who had buried himself in the Tennessee mountains.
A city sat on a height of land, a burnt-out shell drifted with ash.
There was junk everywhere, toppled stacks of tapes, print-out, dirty plates, clothes strewn over sound equipment, books, towels, burnt-out candles, package shells, customised appliances with insulating tape and rubber flex sticking out of them.