English Explanatory Dictionary

burnout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/ En-au-burnout.ogg

Word forms

burnout burnouts burn-out

Etymology

Deverbal from burn out.

Derived words

boreout burnoutness

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 倦怠 Czech: vyhoření Danish: udbrændthed Dutch: burn-out Finnish: työuupumus Finnish: loppuunpalaminen Finnish: burnout French: burn-out French: surmenage French: syndrome d’épuisement professionnel Georgian: გამოფიტვა Georgian: დაუძლურება Greenlandic: nukissaarunneq Italian: esaurimento Italian: esaurimento nervoso Korean: 번아웃 Malay: lesu upaya Polish: wypalenie Portuguese: esgotamento Romanian: surmenare emoțională Serbo-Croatian: krajnja iscrpljenost Serbo-Croatian: pregorjelost Spanish: surmenage Spanish: agotamiento Swedish: utbrändhet Ukrainian: емоці́йне вигоря́ння
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