burned-out

[ burnd-out ]

adjective
  1. rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use; consumed: Check your outdoor lights and replace any burned-out bulbs.

  2. exhausted or made listless through overwork, stress, or intemperance.

  1. deprived of one's regular place to live, work, etc., by a destructive fire.

Origin of burned-out

1
First recorded in 1805–15
  • Also burnt-out [burnt-out] /ˈbɜrntˈaʊt/ .

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How to use burned-out in a sentence

  • I sat up reading till the candle was burnt out, from the first sheet on which my eyes fell so greatly interesting me.

    Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander Dumas
  • Right down among the shabby burnt-out underwood moves the sordid figure of a man.

    English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
  • Evidently the petrol had burnt out; but not so the fire, alas!

    Sarah's School Friend | May Baldwin
  • It is then put into the fire; and the flax being burnt out, the cloth remains pure and white.

  • How shall he give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?

    Sartor Resartus | Thomas Carlyle