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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 burnt-out In A Sentence
- The final image was a still they had recovered from somewhere of the burnt-out wreck of Allen's van. LOST SUMMER
- Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
- Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors. Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece
- Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
- There were no obvious landmarks, not unless one counted the burnt-out cars. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
- The body was found among the remains of a burnt-out cottage.
- There, she runs ashtanga retreats and 'visioning' workshops to help burnt-out professionals 'unlock their inner abundance'. Times, Sunday Times
- But two out-of-the-blue disasters have hit Rachel and her family in the last five days: a burnt-out clutch which is going to be very expensive, and a diagnosis of breast cancer in her husband's family. Archive 2009-08-01
- The projections are staged amid appropriate props: portable toilets, a burnt-out VW campervan. This week's new exhibitions
- By Megan Cytron The movie Sideways put the Santa Ynez Valley on the map--and not just for aging burnt-out urban dwellers... PHOTOS: Going Sideways In The Santa Ynez Valley
