burn out
See also: burnout
English
Verb
burn out (third-person singular simple present burns out, present participle burning out, simple past and past participle burned out or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt out)
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- The candle finally burned out.
- 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."
- (idiomatic) To tire due to overwork.
- After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.
Translations
to extinguish due to lack of fuel
to tire due to overwork
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Noun
- (idiomatic) (of a person) The condition of tiredness due to overwork.
- 2002, Chuck Purdy, The Street Saint: Emergency in the Emergency Services
- 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
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