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/ɪgzˈɔstəd/ /ɪgzˈɔstɪd/ Listen

verb

Exhaust v. t. (past & past part. exhausted; pres. part. exhausting)

1.

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

2.

To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

3.

To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. "A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five."

4.

To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

5.

(Chem.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.

Synonyms: To spend; consume; tire out; weary.

adjective

exhausted adj.

1.

Same as burned-out, 1.

Synonyms: burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).

2.

Used up; completely consumed. (Narrower terms: gone, expended, spent) WordNet 1.5 +PJC)

3.

Emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created. Opposite of unexhausted.

Synonyms: exhausted, evacuated.

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Etymology of 'Exhausted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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