burned-out
rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use; consumed: Check your outdoor lights and replace any burned-out bulbs.
exhausted or made listless through overwork, stress, or intemperance.
deprived of one's regular place to live, work, etc., by a destructive fire.
Origin of burned-out
1- Also burnt-out [burnt-out] /ˈbɜrntˈaʊt/ .
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How to use burned-out in a sentence
Their bodies were found singed in the burnt-out car in which they were killed.
Politely, she asks a busboy to replace some burnt-out light bulbs in the ceiling.
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band | Grover Lewis | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd after the epidemic burnt out in Reunion, it moved to India, where 1.25 million cases were seen in short order.
Chikungunya: The Mosquito-Borne Virus That Contorts Your Limbs | Kent Sepkowitz | March 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCertain sections of the battlefield,” he adds, “were littered with the ghastly remains of burnt-out tanks and incinerated crews.
Ma Gastronomie by Fernand Point This book can give the most burnt out chef a fresh look at the kitchen.
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 DumasRight down among the shabby burnt-out underwood moves the sordid figure of a man.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterEvidently the petrol had burnt out; but not so the fire, alas!
Sarah's School Friend | May BaldwinIt is then put into the fire; and the flax being burnt out, the cloth remains pure and white.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsHow 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
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