燃え尽きる

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: Written 燃え尽きる and read もえつきる, it means burning completely away and, figuratively, exhausting all one's energy or drive.
• Basic usage: It covers a campfire going out before dawn and the drained feeling after giving everything in a competition.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Literal burning versus burnout
  • With a person, it is a metaphor for depletion after intense effort, not physical combustion.