"burn out" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-burn out.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} burn out (uncountable)
  1. Nonstandard spelling of burnout. Tags: alt-of, nonstandard, uncountable Alternative form of: burnout
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-noun-GF3-ZDbH

Verb

Audio: en-au-burn out.ogg [Australia] Forms: burns out [present, singular, third-person], burning out [participle, present], burned out [participle, past], burned out [past], burnt out [Commonwealth, participle, past], burnt out [Commonwealth, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|past2=burnt out|past2_qual=mostly Commonwealth}} 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)
  1. (transitive) To destroy by fire. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-kDmqFWMV
  2. (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel. Tags: intransitive Translations (to extinguish due to lack of fuel): palaa loppuun (Finnish), elég (Hungarian), végigég (Hungarian), spegnersi (Italian), estinguersi (Italian), padam (Malay), abenar (Occitan), atudar (Occitan), escantir (Occitan), выгора́ть (vygorátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́гореть (výgoretʹ) [perfective] (Russian), сгора́ть (sgorátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сгоре́ть (sgorétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), перегора́ть (peregorátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), перегоре́ть (peregorétʹ) (english: globe) [perfective] (Russian), falna (Swedish), brinna ut (Swedish), sönmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-TluU4xAi Disambiguation of 'to extinguish due to lack of fuel': 2 43 0 28 24 0 1 1
  3. (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices). Tags: intransitive Translations (to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)): kiég (Hungarian), kialszik (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-sjWsRIRJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 4 2 14 2 3 1 35 31 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 8 5 5 16 4 5 3 26 28 Disambiguation of 'to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)': 2 12 78 1 1 0 3 3
  4. (intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit. Tags: intransitive Translations (to tire due to overwork): palaa loppuun (Finnish), s’épuiser (French), queimar (Galician), kiég (Hungarian), esaurirsi (Italian), abenar (Occitan), ficar esgotado/exausto (Portuguese), выдыха́ться (vydyxátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́дохнуться (výdoxnutʹsja) (note: perfective form is much more common) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-NW2S7a6Z Disambiguation of 'to tire due to overwork': 0 23 0 47 28 0 1 1
  5. (transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb--QrDsb1a
  6. (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job. Tags: intransitive, slang, uncommon
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-cB1Btqfu
  7. (intransitive, automotive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Automotive Derived forms: burn-out [noun], burnout [noun]
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb--MpIpTgG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 4 2 14 2 3 1 35 31 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 8 5 5 16 4 5 3 26 28 Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
  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. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-burn_out-en-verb-2J-F3X3h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (out), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 4 2 14 2 3 1 35 31 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 8 4 3 17 2 3 1 26 35 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 8 5 5 16 4 5 3 26 28 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 5 3 3 17 3 4 2 24 38

Inflected forms

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          "word": "ficar esgotado/exausto"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burning out",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burned out",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "burned out",
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        "past"
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      "form": "burnt out",
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        "Commonwealth",
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        "past"
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      "form": "burnt out",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1941 April, “The Why and the Wherefore: Hawes Junction Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 191 (the collision occurred in 1910)",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy by fire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To destroy by fire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: flame out"
        },
        {
          "text": "The candle finally burned out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII\nMr. 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.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become extinguished due to lack of fuel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extinguish",
          "extinguish"
        ],
        [
          "fuel",
          "fuel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tire",
          "tire"
        ],
        [
          "overwork",
          "overwork"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overwork",
          "overwork"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I start my shift at three in the afternoon, and get to burn out at midnight.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To end one's shift at a job."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shift",
          "shift"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "slang",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Automotive"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "tire",
          "tire"
        ],
        [
          "skid",
          "skid"
        ],
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          "peel off",
          "peel off"
        ],
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          "peel out",
          "peel out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, automotive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The repairs on this nuclear reactor have burned out every welder in the province.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "audio": "en-au-burn out.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-au-burn_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "palaa loppuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "elég"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "végigég"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "spegnersi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "estinguersi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "padam"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "abenar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "atudar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "escantir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vygorátʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выгора́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výgoretʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́гореть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sgorátʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сгора́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sgorétʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сгоре́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peregorátʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "перегора́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "globe",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peregorétʹ",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "перегоре́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "falna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "brinna ut"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to extinguish due to lack of fuel",
      "word": "sönmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)",
      "word": "kiég"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices)",
      "word": "kialszik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "palaa loppuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "s’épuiser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "queimar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "kiég"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "esaurirsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "abenar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "word": "ficar esgotado/exausto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vydyxátʹsja",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выдыха́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "perfective form is much more common",
      "roman": "výdoxnutʹsja",
      "sense": "to tire due to overwork",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́дохнуться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "burn out"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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    "English verbs",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "burnout"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Chuck Purdy, The Street Saint: Emergency in the Emergency Services",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard spelling of burnout."
      ],
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        [
          "burnout",
          "burnout#English"
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        "uncountable"
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/23/En-au-burn_out.ogg/En-au-burn_out.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-au-burn_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "burn out"
}

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