adjective
- Exhausted as a result of longtime stress.
- usage: "she was burned-out before she was 30"
- synonyms: burnt-out
- Inoperative as a result of heat or friction.
- usage: "a burned-out picture tube"
- synonyms: burnt-out
- Destroyed or badly damaged by fire.
- usage: "a row of burned houses"; "a charred bit of burnt wood"; "a burned-over site in the forest"; "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
- synonyms: burned, burnt, burned-over, burnt-out
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