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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

बर्नआउट

Pronunciation / Transliteration: barnāuṭ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Burnout/ˈbɜːn.aʊt/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"लगातार काम करने से उसे बर्नआउट का सामना करना पड़ा।"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Physical or mental exhaustion caused by working too hard or being under too much stress.

    "Many young professionals suffer from burnout within their first few years of employment."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the phrasal verb 'burn out', which originated in rocketry and aerospace engineering in the mid-20th century to describe a rocket engine exhausting its fuel supply. The term was later adopted by clinical psychologists in the 1970s, notably Herbert Freudenberger, to metaphorically describe human workers exhausting their mental and physical energy reserves through chronic workplace stress.

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