flameout
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
- noun The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
- noun The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
Similar words
extinguishing burnoff outflight efflux fall out foul out blowoff burnout falling-out flowoff
Often followed by
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Word family
flameouts
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