exhaust
/ɪɡˈzɔst/ verb C1- To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely. · The water was exhausted out of the well.· Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
- To empty by drawing or letting out the contents. · to exhaust a well· to exhaust a treasury
- To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end. · My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.· to exhaust one's resources
- To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy. · The marathon exhausted me.
- To discuss thoroughly or completely. · That subject has already been exhausted.
- To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives. · to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether
- To expel (as exhaust).
- To discharge or escape (as exhaust).
He/she/it exhausts · Past exhausted · Past participle exhausted · -ing form exhausting
Verb forms
- Base form
- exhaust
- He/she/it
- exhausts
- Past
- exhausted
- Past participle
- exhausted
- -ing form
- exhausting
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Faria had now fully regained his consciousness, but he still lay helpless and exhausted on his miserable bed.
But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one.
At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
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