burn out

VERB
  1. melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
    The lightbulbs blew out
    The fuse blew
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How To Use burn out In A Sentence

  • Results The revised MBI have a good consistency and validity, the middle-ranking party and governm ental cadres job burn out have different on demographic variables.
  • But they can be unreasonable micromanagers who burn out employees and are overcritical. Times, Sunday Times
  • A disappointing match but when the quarters and semis are played on the same day, this sort of burn out performance is bound to happen.
  • Even the finest of rookies may be fated to burn out and plummet to earth as a cold cinder within a season or two.
  • Continuing on can lead to what is termed "burn out "which will probably need medical help. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
  • When I was still a child, I discovered a thought that resonated strongly with me: "It is better to shine brightly and then burn out than to slowly smoulder aimlessly. Khodorkovsky Unabridged
  • It's a high-pressure job and you could burn out young.
  • Eventually the stars would burn out and a curtain of frozen darkness would enshroud all existence.
  • Blow out the candles before they burn out.
  • I was confined to my bed, and it was then that my mind, dwelling for hours together on the experiment about to be made, suggested that instead of trying to decarburise the granulated metal by forcing the air down the vertical pipe among the pieces of iron, the air would act much more energetically and more rapidly if I first melted the iron in the crucible, and forced the air down the pipe below the surface of the fluid metal, and thus burn out the carbon and silicum which it contained. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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