burn out
• ruin one's health or become completely exhausted through overwork.
• "doing one task for too long can cause you to burn out"
Similar:
work too hard,
work like a Trojan/horse/slave,
wear oneself to a shadow,
work one's fingers to the bone,
drive oneself into the ground,
sweat,
sweat blood,
work day and night,
burn the candle at both ends,
burn the midnight oil,
overtax oneself,
overtax one's strength,
kill oneself,
do too much,
overdo it,
strain oneself,
overburden oneself,
overload oneself,
drive/push oneself too hard,
knock oneself out,
work one's tail off,
work/sweat one's balls off,
Opposite:
be idle,
• completely destroy a building or vehicle by fire, so that only a shell remains.
• "she claimed that at least four cars in the village had been burned out in recent months"
• cease to function as a result of excessive heat or friction.
• "the clutch had burned out"
burnout
noun
• the reduction of a fuel or substance to nothing through use or combustion.
• the failure of an electrical device or component through overheating.
• "an anti-stall mechanism prevents motor burnout"
• physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress.
• "high levels of professionalism which may result in burnout"
• denoting fabric whose pattern is produced by using chemicals to burn away areas of the pile or the fabric itself.
• "burnout velvet"
