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 burnt-out In A Sentence
- New characters include a burnt-out 1950s trolley dolly. Times, Sunday Times
- Whenever some burnt-out glossy magazine art director can't summon an iota of inspiration over what to do with some lady sleb, he'll always resort to dressing her up as one of a handful of icons.
- I'm enjoying the couple of days of great sunshine, cycling around a bit, but I'm kind of frazzled and burnt-out too.
- Across from a fire-damaged government building surrounded by burnt-out cars, an older man debated a group of younger men in a coffee shop. Diverse Crowds Unify in Huge, Calm Protest
- Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press People picked up baby strollers and carried them over the piles of shell casings littering the pavement, steering them around the sand berms and burnt-out tanks blocking the sidewalks. Libyans Reclaim Embattled Street
- Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
- Sullivan's group laid waste to innumerous acres of cornfields and fruit tree orchards, leaving a burnt-out scarred countryside.
- It has an infinity pool and a meditation room for burnt-out fashionistas. Times, Sunday Times
- They stopped at a tiny inlet to stare at a rusted burnt-out Cadillac which lay with its fender submerged in the glossy water. DESPERADOES
- The final image was a still they had recovered from somewhere of the burnt-out wreck of Allen's van. LOST SUMMER