burned-out
Use Burned-out in a sentence
adjective
1.
consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
2.
exhausted or made listless through overwork, stress, or intemperance.
3.
deprived of one's regular place to live, work, etc., by a destructive fire.
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| burned-out | |
adjective | |
| 1. | exhausted as a result of longtime stress; "she was burned-out before she was 30" |
| 2. | inoperative as a result of heat or friction; "a burned-out picture tube" |
| 3. | destroyed or badly damaged by fire; "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "a burned-over site in the forest"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars" [syn: burned] |
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Burned-out
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Camouflaged troops fire at shadows in burned-out skeletons of buildings.
Five others holed up in a shopping mall, where they died as the building was reduced to a burned-out hulk.
Burned-out vehicles and collapsed houses dot the landscape.
It's no wonder that he burned-out, with millions of dollars at stake on every word of his songs.
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