flameout

Noun

flameout (countable and uncountable, plural flameouts)

1. The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.

   Antonyms:

   flare-up

2. (figuratively) The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
   • The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
   • She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Selling the General”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad
3. The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
   • The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
   • Bombardier’s core lock screening procedure requires a cool-down period before engine shutdown to stabilize internal temperatures and clearances. However, this procedure does not produce the more severe thermal distress associated with the high power, high altitude flameouts that were experienced...2007 January 9, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.18.2 Core Lock”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N8396A, Jefferson City...

   Antonyms:

   flare-up