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Burnt-out

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Adjective

1. burned-out, burnt-out

exhausted as a result of longtime stress

Example Sentences:
'she was burned-out before she was 30'

2. burned-out, burnt-out

inoperative as a result of heat or friction

Example Sentences:
'a burned-out picture tube'

3. burned, burned-out, burned-over, burnt, burnt-out

destroyed or badly damaged by fire

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Burnt-out

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adjective
1. 
destroyed by fire
a burnt-out car
2. informal
severely exhausted through overwork or dissipation
his performance as a burnt-out, cuckolded private eye
Everyone I know who kept it up at that intensity is burnt out.

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Burnt-out

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adj.
Variant of burned-out.

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