burnout
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noun
1.
a fire that is totally destructive of something.
2.
Also, burn-out. fatigue, frustration, or apathy resulting from prolonged stress, overwork, or intense activity.
3.
Rocketry.
a.
the termination of effective combustion in a rocket engine, due to exhaustion of propellant.
b.
the end of the powered portion of a rocket's flight.
4.
Electricity. the breakdown of a lamp, motor, or other electrical device due to the heat created by the current flowing through it.
Origin:
1900–05; noun use of verb phrase burn out
1900–05; noun use of verb phrase burn out
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Burnout
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
burnout definition[ˈbɚnɑʊt]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Whether or not these people have families this leads to burnout and is therefore wasteful.
If the photos were adjusted so you could see the stars you would not be able to see anything but burnout on the objects shown.
The system kept turning on and off, resulting in the burnout of a water pump.
Depression and burnout may play varying roles in how physicians treat patients and themselves.
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