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 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 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 Or the 2019 Lightning and 2023 Bruins, which both flamed out in all-time first-round upsets. —

Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 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 Most of the top Fox executives who tried to make the transition flamed out, but Walden thrived. —

Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026 The Cavaliers flamed out in the second round of the playoffs losing to the Indiana Pacers in five games and Hunter averaged 11 points in eight postseason games last season. —

Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 1 Feb. 2026 By the time Bachmann’s 2012 presidential bid flamed out, Miller was already firmly ensconced with then-Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who shared his hard-line obsession with immigration, and Bannon, who provided a broader nationalist, populist scaffolding. —

Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026

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Funded by the National Science Foundation, the film investigates evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet collapsed in the past and asks what that reveals about the planet’s future.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
Crucially, the study found that a major sanctuary called Amyklai remained active after the palace collapsed, and later became important to both Spartans and Lakedaimonians.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026