| burnt-out | |
adjective | |
| 1. | exhausted as a result of longtime stress; "she was burned-out before she was 30" [syn: burned-out] |
| 2. | inoperative as a result of heat or friction; "a burned-out picture tube" [syn: burned-out] |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |