📚 Burn out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition: Ruin one's health or become completely exhausted through overwork. ❗️ Examples: 1. Doing one task for too long can cause you to burn out. 2. A burned-out undercover cop. 3. She had died at the age of 45 from exhaustion, burnt out by the hardships of life. 4. But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered. 5. Rather than improving technique, burned out dancers may report debilitating fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, and injuries. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic