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Exhausting   /ɪgzˈɔstɪŋ/   Listen
Exhausting

adjective
1.
Having a debilitating effect.  Synonym: draining.
2.
Producing exhaustion.  Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying.  "The visit was especially wearing"


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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"Exhausting" Quotes from Famous Books



... duties were not exhausting to the body. I was required only to sit without a hat from ten of the morning to midday, and from four until seven in the afternoon, at one of the small tables under the awning of the Cafe' de la Paix at the corner of the Place de l'Opera—that is to say, ...
— The Beautiful Lady • Booth Tarkington
... short. Mrs. Marshall-Smith had stopped to listen in the midst of the exhausting toil of telling Helene which dresses to pack and which to leave hanging in the Lydford house. She now resumed her labors unflaggingly, waving away to the closet a mauve satin, and beckoning into a trunk a favorite black-and-white ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... the Ohio, lest their retreat, if delayed 'till the whites had an opportunity of organizing themselves for battle, should be entirely cut off. Infuriate at the blasting of their hopes of blood and spoil, they resolved to murder all their male prisoners—exhausting on their devoted heads, the fury of disappointed expectation. Preparations to carry this resolution into effect, were ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers
... districts, because when you have got a clearing made and all the buildings up, you have by no means finished with the affair, for you have to fight the Ogowe forest back, as a Dutchman fights the sea. But the main cause of work is the store, which in this exhausting climate is more than enough work ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... of the general relations of the United States, the president said: "While many of the nations of Europe, with their American dependencies, have been involved in a contest unusually bloody, exhausting, and calamitous, in which the evils of foreign war have been aggravated by domestic convulsion and insurrection, in which many of the arts most useful to society have been exposed to discouragement and decay; in which scarcity of subsistence has embittered other sufferings; while even the ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing


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