burned-out

[ burnd-out ]

adjective
  1. rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use; consumed: Check your outdoor lights and replace any burned-out bulbs.

  2. exhausted or made listless through overwork, stress, or intemperance.

  1. deprived of one's regular place to live, work, etc., by a destructive fire.

Origin of burned-out

1
First recorded in 1805–15
  • Also burnt-out [burnt-out] /ˈbɜrntˈaʊt/ .

Words Nearby burned-out

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How to use burned-out in a sentence

  • When the last scarlo is burned out a funeral march is played and all disperse to their homes.

  • The very soil in which it grew must be burned out with the flame of avenging justice.

  • Her eyes, too, had a curious hard opaque look, as if the old voluptuous fires had burned out; and she seemed ever on her guard.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • When the fire's over, or Mr. Hofer lets me, I'll come back and do something for those poor wretches that have been burned out.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • The fire had been lighted; but it had long ago burned out, and the ashes were stone cold.

    Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis Stevenson