Meaning of Burnout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
   countable, uncountable
3. Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
   US, countable, slang, uncountable
4. The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
   countable, uncountable
5. The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“High on the list of proposals educators said they support⟳ to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support⟳ for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey.”

“Ten years of this soul-sucking job would turn⟳ any ambitious young person into a burnout.”

“There’s no way we can hire⟳ that guy. He’s a total burnout—he can't do the work⟳.”

“Then in his late 30s, he [Neal Cassady] was already a visibly ravaged shadow of Kerouac’s heroically defiant rebel and well on his way to becoming the kind of babbling burnout you don’t want⟳ to sit⟳ next to on any bus trip⟳, magical or not.”

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