burnout

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
2. (countable, uncountable) A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
3. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
4. (countable, uncountable) The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
5. (countable, uncountable) The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
6. (countable, uncountable) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.

Synonyms

loss of combustion

overburning

burning-out

burnthrough

Translations

surmenage

Ausbrennen

burn

burn-out

syndrome d’épuisement professionnel

burn-out

esgotamento

queme

roketde yanmanın bitmesi

tükenme

التّوقّف

yanma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/

Etymology

Deverbal from burn out.