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adjective

burnt-out, burned-out adj.

Drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; of people.

Synonyms: 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).

Damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.

Synonyms: burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Burned-out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Burned-out" Quotes from Famous Books

... 175-mile run to Needles, California. It was a land of desolation—an extension of the Mojave Desert on the south, and the alkaline flats and mineral mountains of Nevada on the north, of Death Valley and the Funeral Mountains of California to the northwest—a burned-out land of grim-looking mountains extending north and south across our way; a dried-out, washed-out, and wind-swept land of extensive flats and arroyos; a land of rock and gravel cemented in marls and clay; ungraced ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

... which, when once seen, must always haunt the mind. Such an expanse of savage and unrelieved desert might be part of some cold and burned-out planet rather than of this fertile and bountiful earth. Away and away it stretched to die into a soft, violet haze in the extremest distance. In the foreground the sand was of a bright golden yellow, which was quite dazzling in the sunshine. Here and there, ...

— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle

... fled, and have carried forever with it her numberless graces, and left in its stead that ribaldry-stained, drink-defiled, hardened, battered, joyless, cruel, terrible thing which is unsightly and repugnant to even the lowest among men; which is as the lees of the drunk wine, as the ashes of the burned-out fires, as the discord of the broken and ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... Star, Nigra, was a dead, burned-out sun surrounded by a planetary system very much like our own. But these people had been forced to use their science to produce enough heat and light to stay alive in the cold, black depths of interstellar space. There was nothing evil or menacing in their attack on the Solar System; ...

— Islands of Space • John W Campbell

... quarts capacity, which served so many purposes in domestic life, could be tranquilly carrying out some of her propositions in the corner of the wide chimney while dinner was cooking, or in the ashes of the burned-out embers ...

— The Development of Embroidery in America • Candace Wheeler

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