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 burned-out In A Sentence
- Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
- Burned-out hulks of several trailer houses were nearby.
- Here in Chicago I tend to cover breaking crime stories where the action is intense - grieving victims, burned-out buildings, angry neighbors.
- You play the role of Aronos Schuler, once a young Bishop in Moscow and the descendant of a 12th century German monk, now a burned-out loner who doesn't even believe in a god any more.
- Today the wait is over, Spanish Harlem's burned-out buildings are gold mines…
- We have scavenged the burned-out theater next door for a filigreed floor-to-ceiling round mirror and a tattered poster of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet.
- He was in no mood for his own work and by eleven he wandered unconsoled and purposeless towards the blackened ruins of the burned-out shed. Cargo of Eagles
- When I raised my binoculars to a snag, or jagged top, of a broken, burned-out tree, I found myself locked in a gaze with a female on her nest.
- In the meantime I'd get something to eat somewhere, do my patrol, and sometime in the night get over to that burned-out house. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
- But last night only the burned-out shell of the building was left.
