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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

... below the tracks. From these two searchers after truth we learned that Joe Nevison's mother had brought him home from the Indian Territory mortally sick. Half-a-dozen of us who had played with him as boys went to see him that evening, and found a wan, haggard man with burned-out black eyes, lying in a clean white bed. He seemed to know each of us for a moment and spoke to us through his delirium in a tired, piping voice—like the voice of the little boy who had been our leader. He called us by forgotten nicknames, and he hummed at a tune that we had not heard ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... merely a charred, incinerated mass, the figure lay in the full appearance of life, a cast of the actual man, moulded with fineness from the white ashes of the fire! Not a feature, not a limb, not a fragment of clothing was left undestroyed; yet none the less here, stretched across the bed of the burned-out fire, with face upturned, with one arm doubled beneath the head and the other with clinched hand outflung, lay the image, the counterpart, nay, the identity of the man they sought! It was a death mask, wrought by the pity of the destroying ...

— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough