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Found 4 hits - Term: exhausted, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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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