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Exhausted   /ɪgzˈɔstəd/  /ɪgzˈɔstɪd/   Listen
Exhausted

adjective
1.
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted.  Synonyms: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out.  "He went to bed dog-tired" , "Was fagged and sweaty" , "The trembling of his played out limbs" , "Felt completely washed-out" , "Only worn-out horses and cattle" , "You look worn out"
2.
Depleted of energy, force, or strength.  Synonym: spent.  "The exhausted food sources" , "Exhausted oil wells"
3.
Drained physically.



Exhaust

verb
(past & past part. exhausted; pres. part. exhausting)
1.
Wear out completely.  Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up.  "I'm beat" , "He was all washed up after the exam"
2.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, run through, use up, wipe out.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
3.
Deplete.  Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire.  "We quickly played out our strength"
4.
Use up the whole supply of.
5.
Eliminate (a substance).  Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release.  "The plant releases a gas"



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"Exhausted" Quotes from Famous Books



... spent. Tears of grief and tears of love followed one another in rapid succession, and nine times did I offer up sacrifice on the altar of the god, who gave me fresh strength to replace that which was exhausted. The sanctuary was full of blood and tears, but the desires of the priest and victim still cried for more. We had at last to make an effort and part. Eleanore had seized the opportunity of our sleeping for a few moments, and had softly risen and left ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... restraint that the higher kinds of temporal happiness are reached, and as confusions are cleared away in process of discussion, it becomes patent that such restraint finds its motive directly or indirectly in religion. When the religious influence with which irreligious society is saturated, has exhausted itself, and idealism is no more, the unrestrained egoistic pursuit of enjoyment must tend to its steady diminution in quantity, and its depreciation in kind. The sorrow and pain entailed by fidelity to ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... uttering a loud and prolonged scream, shot downward and alighted on the thwart next Yaspard, too exhausted to do more than utter one faint croak, which might have been a parting anathema on the shooies, but which charity impels me to believe was an expression of thankfulness for such an ark of refuge as the ...
— Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby

... rate, had learned the lesson of the hour, and were as perfidious, as truculent, as base as their master could have wished. Such a one was that Gessius Floras who was the procurator of Judea, and who seemed to have exhausted the ingenuity of a malignant nature in stirring up the Jews to insurrection. By every species of indignity and cruelty he finally stung the long-suffering people into a perfect fury, and the rebellion which broke out in Palestine in the year 66 was one of the most fearful eruptions ...
— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden

... had I fallen to the bottom I must have been killed, but I fell into the middle of the tree, and presently found myself astride upon one of the boughs; scratched and bruised all over, I reached the ground, and regained my chamber unobserved; I flung myself on my bed quite exhausted; presently they came to tell me that my mother was better—they found me in the state which I have described, and in a fever besides. The favourable crisis must have occurred just about the time that I performed the magic touch; ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow


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