0 A building or vehicle that is burnt out has been badly damaged by fire: --
[ before noun ] a burnt-out house
After the fire the factory was completely burnt out.
1 ill or very tired from working too hard --
Tanks and armoured cars were reported to have been burnt out and no survivors were to be seen.
They are burnt out and they constitute a danger.
They are burnt out and the plutonium and uranium are fully oxidised so that cannot catch fire.
More premiums will be collected as profit instead of being paid as compensation for burnt out buildings.
During the visit, the group found the burnt out remains of the car.
There is all the difficulty of raising embers which might have been burnt out.
That fire has burnt out and there is nothing left in the grate but the cinders.
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.
