burn out

All four engines and the entire train were derailed, and owing to the fact that all the vehicles except the sleeping cars were gas-lit, the whole of the coaching stock except the two rear brakes was burned out, beginning with the two front coaches, which were completely wrecked.

The candle finally burned out.

After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.

I start my shift at three in the afternoon, and get to burn out at midnight.

The repairs on this nuclear reactor have burned out every welder in the province.