Dictionary

burn out en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Nonstandard form of burnout.
   alt of burnout
   • His burn out hadn't been caused by too many dead bodies; it was from spending his life doing for people what most of them had refused to do for themselves. 2002, Chuck Purdy, The Street Saint: Emergency in the Emergency Services:

Forms

burn out en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (transitive) To destroy by fire.
   • All four engines and the entire train were derailed, and owing to the fact that all the vehicles except the sleeping cars were gas-lit, the whole of the coaching stock except the two rear brakes was burned out, beginning with the two front coaches, which were completely wrecked. 1941 April, “The Why and the Wherefore: Hawes Junction Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 191 (the collision occurred in 1910):
2. (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
   • The candle finally burned out.
3. (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
4. (intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to one's limit.
   • After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.
5. (transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
6. (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job.
   • I start my shift at three in the afternoon, and get to burn out at midnight.
7. (intransitive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
8. (idiomatic) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
   • The repairs on this nuclear reactor have burned out every welder in the province.
9. (intransitive, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
10. (intransitive) To be destroyed by fire.
    • An abandoned tank was burning out at the edge of the battlefield.

Forms

Coordinates

flame out

Deriveds

burn-out · burnout

Synonyms

burn up · roll out

Translations (35)

pt fundir-se (to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)) · ru сгоре́ть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · it estinguersi (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · es patinar (to have one's tires skid against the ground) · tr sönmek (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · pt apagar-se (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · ru перегоре́ть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · fi palaa loppuun (to tire due to overwork) · ru выдыха́ться (to tire due to overwork) · ru сгора́ть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · la efflammō (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · pl wypalać się (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · sv falna (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · gl queimar (to tire due to overwork) · ru вы́гореть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · ru перегора́ть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · it esaurirsi (to tire due to overwork) · fr s'épuiser (to tire due to overwork) · hu elég (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · oc atudar (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · oc abenar (to tire due to overwork) · pl wypalić się (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · oc escantir (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · ru выгора́ть (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · hu kiég (to tire due to overwork) · ru вы́дохнуться (to tire due to overwork) · ms padam (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · sv brinna ut (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · hu kiég (to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)) · hu végigég (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · oc abenar (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · hu kialszik (to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)) · it spegnersi (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · fi palaa loppuun (to extinguish due to lack of fuel) · pt ficar esgotado/exausto (to tire due to overwork)