Usually means: Exhaustion from excessive prolonged stress.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word burn out:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn out: Merriam-Webster
  2. burn out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burn out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. burn out: Vocabulary.com
  5. burn-out, burn out: Wordnik
  6. burn-out, burn out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. burn out: Wiktionary
  8. burn-out, burn out: Dictionary.com
  9. Burn Out (Midland song), Burn Out (Sipho Mabuse song), Burn Out (album), Burn Out (film), Burn out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. burn out: Rhymezone
  11. burn out: FreeDictionary.org
  12. burn out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. burn out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. burn out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn out: Legal dictionary
  2. Burn-out, burn out: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Burn-out, burn out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Burn-out, burn out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burn out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burn out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. burn-out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See burn_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (burn out)

verb:  (transitive) To destroy by fire.
verb:  (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
verb:  (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
verb:  (intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job.
verb:  (intransitive, automotive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
verb:  (idiomatic) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
verb:  (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
noun:  Nonstandard spelling of burnout. [(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.]

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