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burn out
USUK
to become ill or exhausted from working too hard for too long
The noun and adjective are 'burnout' and 'burnt out' (also 'burned out' in American English).
In context
If you keep working until midnight every day, you will burn out before the end of the year.
Many young nurses burned out during the pandemic and left the profession.
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- a clean bill of healtha doctor's statement, after an examination, that someone is healthy
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- a ripe old agea very old age, reached in good health
- a second windnew energy that lets you continue after you felt too tired
- a shadow of your former selfmuch weaker, thinner or less impressive than before