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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
exhaust \exhaust"\, v. t. imp. p. p. exhausted; p. pr.
vb. n. exhausting. l. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex
out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to
icel. asua to sprinkle, pump.
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.
1913 webster
2. to empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to
exhaust a well, or a treasury.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
a decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five.
--motley.
1913 webster
4. to bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly;
as, to exhaust a subject.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
exhausted receiver. physics see under receiver.
syn: to spend; consume; tire out; weary.
1913 webster
see also:
exhausted exhausting exhausted receiver receiver
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
exhausted \exhausted\ adj.
1. same as burned-out, 1. wordnet sense 1+3
syn: burned-outprenominal, burnt-outprenominal, burned
outpredicate, burnt outpredicate, fagged, fatigued,
played-outprenominal, played outpredicate, spent,
washed-outprenominal, washed outpredicate,
worn-outprenominal, worn outpredicate.
wordnet 1.5
2. used up; completely consumed. wordnet sense 2narrower
terms: gone, expended, spent wordnet 1.5 +pjc
3. emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created.
opposite of unexhausted.
syn: exhausted, evacuated.
wordnet 1.5 +pjc
see also:
burned-out gone, expended, spent unexhausted
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
exhausted
adj 1: drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired;
completely exhausted; "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" syn: dog-tired, fagged,
fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-outa,
worn outp
2: completely emptied of resources or properties; "impossible
to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted
food sources"; "exhausted oil wells" ant: unexhausted
3: drained physically; "the day's events left her completely
exhausted--her strength drained"
see also:
dog-tired fagged fatigued played out spent washed-out
worn-outa worn outp unexhausted
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 moby thesaurus words for "exhausted":
ablated, acarpous, all in, arid, at an end, ausgespielt, bare,
barren, beat, beat up, beaten, bleary, bone-weary, burned-out,
burnt up, bushed, cachectic, celibate, childless, consumed, dead,
dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, debilitated, depleted,
desert, desolate, devitalized, disabled, dissipated, dog-tired,
dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, dried-up, dry,
eaten up, effete, emptied, empty, enervated, enfeebled, eroded,
eviscerated, fagged out, failing, fallow, far-gone, fatigued,
feeble, finished, frail, frazzled, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gone,
healthless, impotent, impoverished, in poor health, incapacitated,
ineffectual, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, issueless,
jaded, jejune, knocked out, laid low, languishing, leached, limp,
menopausal, moribund, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive,
nonprolific, pale, peaked, peaky, played out, pooped, pooped out,
poor, prostrate, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health,
run-down, sapped, shotten, sickly, sine prole, spent, sterile,
sucked dry, teemless, tired, tired out, tired to death,
tuckered out, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhealthy,
unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsound, unsown, untilled,
used up, valetudinarian, valetudinary, virgin, washed-out,
washed-up, waste, wasted, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weary,
weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, with low resistance,
without issue, worn, worn away, worn out, worn-out
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