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Exhausted   /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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"Exhausted" Quotes from Famous Books



... were already too exhausted to catch the movement and note of dismay. He was drained even of emotion. All he could do was to extend his hand with the casual greeting: "Well, Matt! How are you? ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King
... ropes round our waists, rushed into the water, and striking out against the waves, almost overpowered with their force, we seized the now nearly insensible body, just as his grasp had loosened from the spar, and dragged him ashore. So completely exhausted was he that, at first, we believed our exertions had been in vain, and that he was dead; but, on feeling his heart, we found that he still breathed; and, after looking in vain for the appearance of any of his late shipmates—though ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... prevailing rules, all votes indicated in the space at the head of a list form a pool from which the candidates on the list draw in succession as many votes as may be necessary to make their individual total equal to the electoral quotient, the process continuing until the pool is exhausted. Only by receiving a large number of individual preferential votes can a candidate be elected to the exclusion of a candidate ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg
... she had grown to be impossible. She resented the guardianship exercised over her with an increasing fierceness. When she could smuggle her contraband through the enemy's lines, she locked herself in her room, and remained there until the supply was exhausted She would emerge blotched, pale, and haggard, and companionship between herself and her husband ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... she cannot even go to the station with her darling little girl," said Ida, "but she is completely exhausted, and has not slept ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


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