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burnt-out

[burnt-out]
–adjective
burned-out.

burned-out

[burnd-out]
–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.
Also, burnt-out.


Origin:
1805–15
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