ADJECTIVE
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exhausted as a result of longtime stress
she was burned-out before she was 30 -
inoperative as a result of heat or friction
a burned-out picture tube -
destroyed or badly damaged by fire
a charred bit of burnt wood
a row of burned houses
barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
a burned-over site in the forest
How To Use burned-out In A Sentence
- I turned in her direction, and behind her, through the doorframe of a burned-out shell of a building, I saw them.
- she was burned-out before she was 30
- On this jumbotron, the Kings ran a series of images depicting Detroit as full of dilapidated, garbage-strewn buildings and burned-out cars.
- Why did you decide to shy away from the burned-out, tormented cop and create soccer dad type guys? Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Marshall Karp, part one
- I agree with you that it is probably a partially burned-out motor that has lost some of its torque.
- There is the hospital that had been the newly built pride of its community, reduced to a burned-out hulk, every window blown out.
- What could be wrong besides a burned-out fuse if power windows and power locks on all four doors don't work on a 1996 Cherokee Classic?
- The shells of burned-out buildings, from government ministries to shopping malls, dot the skyline.
- The immediate vicinity of the ranch house featured old tires, the burned-out chassis of a '50s-era sedan, the bed of a pickup truck, propane tanks, and a defunct furnace.
- No one in their right mind would live here among the burned-out office buildings and development complexes.