FLAMED OUT Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

flamed out

verb

past tense of flame out

as in collapsed

to be unsuccessful even at the reception, some were predicting that the marriage would flame out before the fancy china ever got used

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Recent Examples of flamed out Most of the top Fox executives who tried to make the transition flamed out, but Walden thrived. — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026 Construction of the railroad flamed out and stopped in Utah — not California. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 By the time the gold rush flamed out, more than $50 million had been mined—enough to justify the purchase many times over and silence Seward’s critics. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026 Or the 2019 Lightning and 2023 Bruins, which both flamed out in all-time first-round upsets. — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026 Claypool flamed out in Chicago after catching just 18 passes for 191 yards and a touchdown over 10 games. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 1 May 2026 While many of those early Internet high-flyers flamed out, the ones that survived — think Amazon and Google — eventually became profitable businesses or even household names. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 June 2026 And then a surprising proportion of the early front-runners or near-front-runners in the primary—Katie Porter, Eric Swalwell—flamed out of favor for reasons of their own authorship. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 2 June 2026 The Knicks turned to experienced Mike Brown, which came off like Plan B at best, but while Brown has done a masterful job in coaching to his personnel’s strengths and leading the franchise over the playoff hump that tripped up Thibs, the Mavericks flamed out and fired Kidd last week. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026

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Witnesses said ambulances and rescue workers rushed to the scene after the roof collapsed.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Families of the people in both apartment buildings – and others that collapsed in the area – have uploaded videos to social media in the days after the earthquake, pleading for help.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of collapsed

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This was the case for Morocco’s opener, where Casemiro had eyes on two players at once while his team-mates failed to cut out the pass ahead of him.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026
The stutter-step approach by Bruno Guimãraes on the penalty kick failed anyway and the game remained scoreless into the first hydration break.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Definition of failed

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The day could be sliced into identical pieces, the body trained to answer the bell, and the worker folded into a machine that only made sense when every human motion had been made useful to someone else.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Fire shelters weigh around 6 pounds and are folded up inside several protective layers in a firefighter’s pack.

— Jack Dura, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of folded

Verb

Jo Adell walked, and Wade Meckler singled, but Gray struck out Donovan Walton and Tyler Heineman to escape the jam.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Sale went five-plus innings, worked around seven hits, walked two and struck out three on what would not be considered his best start of the season.

— Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of struck out

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Around noon, employers urged Kansans working in downtown KCMO to return home in case the bridges washed out.

— Kansas City Public Library staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
At least five people were killed, and dozens were sought following severe storms in Kentucky and Tennessee that triggered flash floods and washed out roads, officials said.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Definition of washed out

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