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[ verb ] wear out completely

Examples

"This kind of work exhausts me" "I'm beat" "He was all washed up after the exam"

Used in print

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

He could now but the weakness is very definite ; it would exhaust him further and unnecessarily .

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[ verb ] use up, as of resources or materials

Examples

"this car consumes a lot of gas" "We exhausted our savings" "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

It follows , then , provided the possibilities have been exhausted , that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '' , which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz_Buri and , to some extent at_least , is found in much that is significant in American and English theology .

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[ verb ] deplete

Examples

"exhaust one's savings" "We quickly played out our strength"

Used in print

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

Adios '' , I said , exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely tapped store of smiles with my host 's daughters .

Related terms

consume drain play_out sapper

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[ verb ] create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel, etc.)

Synonyms

evacuate

Related terms

empty

5
[ verb ] use up the whole supply of

Examples

"We have exhausted the food supplies"

Related terms

empty exhaustion

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[ noun ] gases ejected from an engine as waste products

Synonyms

fumes exhaust_fumes

Related terms

gas waste

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[ noun ] system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged

Synonyms

exhaust_system

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