flameout

n. 燃烧中断, 毁坏, 熄火

发音

US

词形变化

flameouts 复数 flameouts

别名

flame-out

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.

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  2. 2.

    The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.

  3. 3.

    The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).

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    The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

failure power failure power outage

词源

Deverbal from flame out.

来源：wiktionary