burn out
— phrasal verb with burn uk/bɜːn/us/bɝːn/verb burnt or burned, burnt or burned
(FIRE)
If a fire burns out, it stops producing flames because nothing remains that can burn.
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Burning, burnt & on fire
- ablaze
- alight
- blaze
- burned out
- burnt
- burnt out
- burst
- char
- flame
- flammable
- forest fire
- frazzled
- go up in flames idiom
- incinerate
- inextinguishable
- scald
- sear
- singe
- smolder
- spontaneous combustion
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(BREAK)
B2 If something such as a motor burns out, it stops working because of damage from heat:
It looks like the starter motor on the car has burned out.
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- disable
- fritz
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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