Definitions for burned-out

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Spelling: [burnd-out]

IPA: /ˈbɜrndˈaʊt/

Burned-Out is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 357 anagrams from letters in burned-out (-bdenortuu).

Definitions for burned-out

adjective

1. consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use:
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.

Origin of burned-out

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for burned-out

Young life is sweet, and hope is not to be thrown away like a burned-out match.

The burned-out carcasses of police vehicles and torched cars served as a reminder of the violent day.

When Gerald Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller as vice president from 1974 to 1977, it was a consolation prize to a burned-out boom.

Reconnect the screen: I've had the burned-out fuse replaced.

In the last days of the Soviet Union, there was a going black market in burned-out light-bulbs.

“For the reason that this bulb is a burned-out bulb,” said Mr. Gubb.

Two burned-out cars at the site were full of bullet holes fired from the side, not the front.

There was only one alternative to a dead, burned-out, empty planet.

Will you be a soldier, a sailor, or a ruined, burned-out tradesman?

And so after the book launched, a frustrated and burned-out Ratigan walked away, seeking meaning and purpose in his life.