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View definitions for burned out

burned out

adjective as in drained

adjective as in overworked

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They created a seating area around a burned-out tree.

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For years, neighbors would hold weekly get-togethers, at first on burned-out lots and later at housewarming parties.

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He couldn’t take seeing the burned-out trees, cars and homes.

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After 23 months of war, it now lies in ruins, pockmarked by craters, with burned-out wards and bullet holes.

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County to buy burned-out lots in Pacific Palisades and convert them to low-income housing, strip away local zoning decisions and push dense reconstruction.

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