to exhaust
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3.7
- verb
- /ɪɡˈzɔst/
:
agotar
- The project will exhaust our budget if we don't manage our spending carefully.
- exhaust resources
- exhaust the supply
- exhaust reserves
He once said, when you believe you've exhausted all options, remember this.
- He once said, when you believe you've exhausted all options, remember this.
- Dividing these last things again, let him exhaust his powers of conception.
- Does that mean that we've completely exhausted the shapes of consciousness?
- And this is a pace that is not going to exhaust or bankrupt anyone.
- And I keep on going, keep going, keep going until I exhaust all the directions.
- Mainly kicking because that, that that exhausts your oxygen supply faster than punching.
- So it is real that these are threats, but those threats don't exhaust all possible ways you could survive them.
- We haven't exhausted the incomplete content of North's theorem.
- But you know, it's did you exhaust all the resources?
Examples
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Truth is, I have completely exhausted all of my options.
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As I've previously said to your husband, we have exhausted all possibilities.
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But, you know, I want to exhaust every option.
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We have exhausted every possible legal action.
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You have exhausted your resources.
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I thought I had exhausted every possibility.
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The government tried to support the currency but eventually exhausted its foreign reserves.
Academic text (1999) -
Gloria, I really feel like we've exhausted all of our options here.
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They'll vote for this rash and dangerous amendment only if every other possibility is exhausted.
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She decided to exhaust all her options before making a final decision.
Synonyms
564
6.6
Gradually use up money or fuel
189
3.4
To slowly use up energy, money, or other resources
189
4.2
Destroy something so nothing is left
172
3.2
To use up resources until none are left
69
2.7
To finish all of something so nothing is left
50
5.0
To use money, time, or energy for a purpose
23
1.0
To become very tired or make someone very tired
23
3.1
Use up money or time quickly
19
2.7
To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much
16
4.4
Use up money or supplies quickly and wastefully
15
3.2
To use up batteries, money or supplies until little remains
14
5.6
To slowly make someone or something weaker
13
6.3
To use up almost all of something so little is left
10
2.1
To make a person very tired by using up their energy
3
7.0
To use money or energy in a foolish, wasteful way
2
4.6
To use up the money or help someone needs
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
4
3.3
A set of pipes on a vehicle that carries waste gases away from the engine
- Specialized
1
7.2
A pipe that collects hot gases from an engine and sends them to the exhaust pipe
- Specialized
1
4.7
A valve in a car engine that lets hot gases from the cylinder go outside
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
exhaust = ex + haust
Although analyzable as ex- + haust historically, 'haust' is not a standalone English word, so learners cannot derive the meaning 'use up' from the components.
Etymology
Exhaust The verb comes from Latin ex- 'out' and haurire 'to draw'. If you 'draw out' all of something until it is empty, you have used it up, so to exhaust a resource is to use it completely.