Definitions
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- adjective exhausted as a result of longtime stress
- adjective inoperative as a result of heat or friction
- adjective destroyed or badly damaged by fire
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Examples
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By Megan Cytron The movie Sideways put the Santa Ynez Valley on the map--and not just for aging burnt-out urban dwellers...
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The projections are staged amid appropriate props: portable toilets, a burnt-out VW campervan.
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On succeeding pages of “The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D,” we find that “memories, caravels without sails, crossed the shadowy deserts of her burnt-out eyes” and that the dwarf, Petit Manuel, regards this same woman “with eyes like crushed flowers.”
The Catastrophist 2010
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The movie Sideways put the Santa Ynez Valley on the map--and not just for aging burnt-out urban dwellers unlucky in love--a steady stream of wine-curious souls head here to wake up their taste buds at the valley's more than 70 wineries and tasting rooms.
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The movie Sideways put the Santa Ynez Valley on the map--and not just for aging burnt-out urban dwellers unlucky in love--a steady stream of wine-curious souls head here to wake up their taste buds at the valley's more than 70 wineries and tasting rooms.
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T. Mughal/European Pressphoto Agency CONVOY ATTACK: A truck driver examined a burnt-out truck after a convoy carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan was attacked by suspected militants on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, killing at least five people.
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Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors.
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Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press People picked up baby strollers and carried them over the piles of shell casings littering the pavement, steering them around the sand berms and burnt-out tanks blocking the sidewalks.
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But two out-of-the-blue disasters have hit Rachel and her family in the last five days: a burnt-out clutch which is going to be very expensive, and a diagnosis of breast cancer in her husband's family.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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By Megan Cytron The movie Sideways put the Santa Ynez Valley on the map--and not just for aging burnt-out urban dwellers...
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