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View definitions for burned out

burned out

adjective as in drained

adjective as in overworked

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Just five weeks ago, Pacific Coast Highway was smoldering from one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles County history, with burned-out shells where scores of oceanside homes once stood.

Personnel wore white hazmat suits, blue latex gloves, black sunglasses and respirators as they navigated around a burned-out panel van and blackened metal bed frame.

The remnants of thousands of burned-out homes line the path the flames took down from the hillside as it charged all the way to the ocean.

The full-lengths reside at the intersection of haunted dream-pop, gothic rock, and burned-out western twang, but always center Cruise and her evocative vocals.

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In Malibu, smoke mingled with fog along the coast as television news crews began surveying the damage, broadcasting burned-out stretches of the iconic coastline and husks of beloved restaurants like Gladstones, Moonshadows and Reel Inn.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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