"flame out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flame out.wav Forms: flames out [present, singular, third-person], flaming out [participle, present], flamed out [participle, past], flamed out [past]
Etymology: flame + out Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flame out (third-person singular simple present flames out, present participle flaming out, simple past and past participle flamed out)
  1. (now rare) To become suddenly angry; to break out into indignation or similar emotion; to flare up. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Anger
    Sense id: en-flame_out-en-verb-TgOAhd7B Disambiguation of Anger: 53 3 43 1
  2. (of processes and equipment involving combustion) To fail due to extinction of flame. Translations (to fail due to extinction of flame): sammua (Finnish), гло́хнуть (glóxnutʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), загло́хнуть (zaglóxnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-flame_out-en-verb-L4xX8Lli Disambiguation of 'to fail due to extinction of flame': 1 62 13 24
  3. (figuratively) To fail, usually spectacularly. Tags: figuratively Translations (to fail spectacularly): romuttua (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-flame_out-en-verb-DXBUCHOB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "out", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 8 54 11 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "out": 23 10 56 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 9 68 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 9 63 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 7 74 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 21 9 61 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 21 8 62 9 Disambiguation of 'to fail spectacularly': 4 29 65 1
  4. (intransitive) To stop due to exhaustion. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-flame_out-en-verb--wKdtnMc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flame-out [noun], flameout [noun]

Inflected forms

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