Burn Out

Definition: Burn Out

Burn Out

Verb

1. Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew".

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Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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Synonyms: Burn Out

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Verb: go out, die out, burn out; fizzle.

Refrigeration

Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a.

Crosswords: Burn Out

All stars burn out, Orson (RKO 281; writing credit: Richard Ben Cramer; Thomas Lennon)

Looking for something help me burn out bright (Learn To Fly; performing artist: Foo Fighters)

I'm praying that you don't burn out, (Somewhere Out There; performing artist: Our Lady Peace)

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Books

• Burn Out (reference)

• When Executives Burn Out [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Burn Out (reference)

• Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar (reference)

• Burn Out Your Name (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

Aggression in dementia is a major problem, causing individuals to be placed in nursing homes, nursing staff members to burn out, and nursing homes to use physical and pharmaceutical restraints. (references)

Business

Many equipment have been found to burn out easily in the heat and high humidity of such tropical climate as in Thailand. (references)

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Expressions using "burn out": burn out incombustibility a ♦ burn out oneself ♦ burn out smb. ♦ To burn out. Additional references.

Albanian

bëj shkrumb, shuhem (be dying, die, die out, evanesce, expire, fade, fade out, fizzle out, vanish, wear away, wear off, wither), rraskapitem (overstrain, poop, toil), digjem (burn, die, glow, grow warmer, hanker, pine, scorch), dërrmohem. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تحرق اللمبة, ‏إنطفأ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

угасвам (puff out), прогонвам чрез огън, изгасвам (die out), изгарям напълно, изгарям до основи (burn down), изгарям (blight, blow, blow out, burn, burn away, burn up, consume, cremate, fuse, go phut, incinerate, parch, scorch), догарям (burn down). (various references)

Czech

vypálit (brand, burn down, cauterize, fire, fire off), vyhořet (burn down, go up in smoke), vyhasnout (go out), dohořet. (various references)

Danish

brænde ud, bortaetse, gennembrænding (fuel burn-out). (various references)

Dutch

uitbranden (cauterize), doorsmelting van splijtstof (fuel burn-out), doorsmelting (fuel burn-out). (various references)

Finnish

palaa loppuun. (various references)

French

brulage (fuel burn-out), se griller, s'éteindre, griller (burn), fondre, effet d'usure, dévorer, calefaction (fuel burn-out), arrêt par épuisement. (various references)

German

ausbrennen (be burnt out, be gutted, become extinct, burnout, burnouts, cauterize, cautery, scorch, sear, to burn out), durchbrennen (abscond, blow, blow out, burn through, burn-out, elope, elopement, run away, run off). (various references)

Greek 

καυτηριάζω (cauterize, lash out against, sear), σβήνω (blow out, delete, die out, erase, extinguish, fade away, faint, go out, obliterate, put out, quench, rub out, slake, snuff, snuff out, switch off, turn off, wipe out), τοπική έκκαυση του στοιχείου του πυρηνικού καυσίμου (fuel burn-out). (various references)

Hungarian

kiéget (cauterize, sear, to blight, to burn, to burn out, to cauterize, to sere), kiégés (burnout), kiég (blew, blown, to blow, to blow out, to burn out, to fuse, to fuze), elég (adequate, burn, enough, enow, fairly, have a fair knowledge of english, respectable, suffice, sufficient, that's enough, to burn away, to burn out, to last, to last out, to suffice). (various references)

Italian

bruciatura (burn, burning, scorch), spegnersi (expire, turn off), estinguersi (die, go out, lapse), danno termico del combustibile (fuel burn-out), crisi termica del combustibile (fuel burn-out), corrodere (abrade, corrode, eat, erode, pit, rust). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

燃え尽きる (to burn out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もえつきる (to burn out). (various references)

Manx

lostey magh (burn away). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnbay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

resolver-se (resolve), reduzir a cinzas (cinder, incinerate), queimar-se, queimar (bake, burn, fire, flame, fuse, scathe, scorch, tan). (various references)

Romanian

arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot). (various references)

Russian 

сгорать, сжигать (burn, cremate, incinerate), выжечь (burn down), выжигать (cauterize), перегорать (fuse, fuze), догорать (burn down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sagoreti (burn, sear), pregoreti, iznemoći. (various references)

Spanish

quemado destructivo (fuel burn-out), consumirse (boil away, boil dry, burn away, consume, pine away, shrivel up, sink, waste away, wear away, wear out), cauterizar (burn, cauterize, sear), apagarse (blow out, dim, fade, fade away, fade out, fizzle out, go out), abrasamiento (burning). (various references)

Swedish

brinna ut (go out), bli slut. (various references)

Turkish

yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, fire, fuse, fuze, glow, go on, inflame, kindle, light, light up, scorch, smart, sting, swelter, take, tan, toast), yanıp bitmek, tamamen yakmak, sönmek (be extinguished, be on the wane, die away, die down, go off, go out). (various references)

Ukrainian

спалювати (cinder, scathe), випалювати (burn, calcine, kiln, scorch). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: burnout, outburn.

-1 letter: burton, outrun, rubout, runout.

-2 letters: bourn, brunt, burnt, turbo.

-3 letters: born, bort, bout, brut, bunt, burn, rout, runt, torn, tour, turn, unto.

-4 letters: bot, bro, bun, bur, but, nob, nor, not, nub, nut, orb, ort, our, out, rob, rot, rub, run, rut, ton, tor, tub, tun, urb, urn.

-5 letters: bo, no, nu, on, or, to.

+1 letter: burnouts, outburns, outburnt, runabout.

+2 letters: outburned, outnumber, runabouts, turnabout.

+3 letters: outburning, outnumbers, outrebound, roundabout, subroutine, turnabouts, untroubled.

+4 letters: groundburst, lucubration, outnumbered, outrebounds, roundabouts, subroutines, underbought, unobtrusive.

+5 letters: brontosaurus, elucubration, groundbursts, lucubrations, nonturbulent, outnumbering, outrebounded, rambunctious, surmountable, tubocurarine, unobstructed.