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adjective

burnt-out, burned-out adj.

Drained of energy or effectiveness; driven to apathy by overwork or prolonged stress; of people.

Synonyms: burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).

Damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire; as, barricaded the street with burned-out cars.

Synonyms: burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate).

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"Burnt-out" Quotes from Famous Books

... more gorgeous; it often reaches grandeur. Let it be a winter evening. A suggestion of storm has been playing threats. The western hills have reached up their time-toughened arms and carried the burnt-out lantern of day to bed, tucking him away in gold-lace tapestry and rose-tinted down. Then the blue, black, and brown clouds change quickly to purple, pink, and red by turns, and the opaline sky itself forms a background for the dissolving community of ...

— Trail Tales • James David Gillilan

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... and a brass ornament at top. The fire burned with such blessed influence; it warmed so delightfully. The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but—the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in ...

— Andersen's Fairy Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

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... the garden to see if Ned had weeded out the wild-pea vines—a pest which had invaded the trim place lately. Only a few of the intruders remained, burnt-out and withered as they are annually by the mid-summer sun. There would be no more ...

— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell

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... have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake, And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache; The soul partakes of the season's youth, 90 And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, Like burnt-out craters healed with snow. What wonder if Sir Launfal now Remembered the keeping of ...

— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

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... fire, watching the violet ashen bit of burnt-out paper, the cause, the stupid cause of ...

— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

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