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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



... brilliant successes of the Nile and the equally brilliant capture of the balance of the French Mediterranean fleet, and subsequently the capitulation of Malta on the 5th September, 1800, our share in the war was an exhausting ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman
... warrior, one indulgent but overheated parent, and Dolly—Gerald stood scornfully aloof—were compelled to devote the next two hours to a series of games, stage-plays, and allegories of an innocuous but exhausting description. ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... 951, Elfeg, the Bishop of Winchester had built in his cathedral a great organ which had four hundred pipes and twenty-six pairs of bellows, to manage which seventy strong men were necessary. Wolstan, in his life of St. Swithin, the Benedictine monk, gives an account of the exhausting work required to keep the bellows ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... experiments could go on continually. If he wanted material, he always made it a principle to have it at once, and never hesitated to use special messengers to get it. I remember in the early days of the electric light he wanted a mercury pump for exhausting the lamps. He sent me to Princeton to get it. I got back to Metuchen late in the day, and had to carry the pump over to the laboratory on my back that evening, set it up, and work all night and the next day ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... but before he could get to close range two Fokkers swooped down from behind and filled his aeroplane full of holes. Exhausting his ammunition he landed at Fontaine, an aviation field near the lines. There he learned of Rockwell's death and was told that two other French machines had been brought down within the hour. He ordered his gasoline ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell


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