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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

... to effect the formal capitulation, and so after he had spoken his "Word" he retired to his new apartments in the wind-vane offices. The continuous excitement of the last twelve hours had left him inordinately fatigued, even his curiosity was exhausted; for a space he sat inert and passive with open eyes, and for a space he slept. He was roused by two medical attendants, come prepared with stimulants to sustain him through the next occasion. After he had taken their drugs and bathed ...

— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... transient relief. The annual demand of interest and allowance was a heavy deduction from his income; the militia was a source of expence, the farm in his hands was not a profitable adventure, he was loaded with the costs and damages of an obsolete law-suit; and each year multiplied the number, and exhausted the patience, of his creditors. Under these painful circumstances, I consented to an additional mortgage, to the sale of Putney, and to every sacrifice that could alleviate his distress. But he was no longer capable of a rational ...

— Memoirs of My Life and Writings • Edward Gibbon

... only be for a few months, uncle—only till my limited stock of experiences shall be exhausted. After that I shall be relegated to my natural obscurity, doubtless never to ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 • Various

... a crank, too, in his day, so far as to have gone counter to the most respectable feeling of business in Boston, when he came out an abolitionist. His individual impulse to radicalism had exhausted itself in that direction; we are each of us good for only a certain degree of advance in opinion; few men are indefinitely progressive; and Hilary had not caught on to the movement that was carrying his son with it. But he understood how his son should be what he was, and he loved ...

— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

... and licentiousness. "All died of softening of the brain or spinal marrow, or swelling of the heart." No doubt, many of the noble and the pure were dying prematurely at the same time; but it proceeded from the same essential cause: physical laws disobeyed and bodies exhausted. The evil is, that what in the debauchee is condemned, as suicide, is lauded in the devotee, as saintship. The delirium tremens of the drunkard conveys scarcely a sterner moral lesson than the second childishness of ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

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