verb
- Wear out completely.
- usage: "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
- synonyms: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out
- Use up (resources or materials. )
- usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
- Deplete.
- usage: "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- Use up the whole supply of.
- usage: "We have exhausted the food supplies"
- synonyms: exhaust
- Eliminate (a substance. )
- usage: "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
adjective
- Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted.
- usage: "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "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"
- synonyms: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out
- Depleted of energy, force, or strength.
- usage: "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells"
- synonyms: spent
- Drained physically.
- usage: "the day's events left her completely exhausted-her strength drained"
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