0 A burned out building or vehicle has been badly damaged by fire:
After the fire the factory was completely burned out.
[ before noun ] a burned-out house
1 ill or very tired from working too hard
Thanks to the finite speed of light, it is still possible to look into the night sky and see stars that burned out years ago.
It is clear that the chronic disease had "burned out" by the age of 3 years.
Most of the seeds in the upper soil layer were burned out during the fire and only a small proportion remained.
Four light bulbs are clearly evident, with a darker fifth object - seemingly a burned out bulb - also present.
A strong chief would have been burned out often enough to re-build with a metal roof.
This last area, measuring 33 ha in size, was completely cleared when a milpa fire burned out of control.
If astronomers are to be trusted, people tonight will see ancient stars that burned out millions of years ago.
There are some broken and burned out hulks of tanks still lying where they were destroyed.
