0 A building or vehicle that is burnt out has been badly damaged by fire:
After the fire the factory was completely burnt out.
[ before noun ] a burnt-out house
1 ill or very tired from working too hard
We need to rely upon the autonomy of citizens to deal with land readjustment in burnt out areas.
Once the cells have been 'burnt out', disease activity becomes quiescent.
Walking along the winding main lane one passes walls and roofs that were burnt out.
So much productivity is being required from people that many are physically or mentally burnt out long before they reach the pensionable age.
I saw street after street with decaying tenement blocks, many of them half burnt out; boarded up shops; pot-holed roads, and so on.
Many doctors feel so tired and burnt out by the age of 55 or 60 that they retire early.
This is the way in which valuable young talents are burnt out.
Let us suppose that the contents of a house, let furnished, are insured for £2,000 and that the whole house is burnt out at night.
