burnout.
The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
Meaning & usage
The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
Ten years of this soul-sucking job would turn any ambitious young person into a burnout.
A feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted from stress and overwork, rendering one cynical, uncaring or depression.
Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
There’s no way we can hire that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work.
The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
Where this word comes from
Deverbal from burn out.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.