Flameout
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flameout is a noun meaning The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
Meaning
The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
More Meanings
- (figurative) The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
- The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
Example Sentences
The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it.
Word Forms
- flameouts
- flame-out
Antonyms for flameout
Common opposites include flare-up.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extinguishing, burnoff, outflight, efflux, fall out, blowoff.
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