to exhaust
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3.2
- verb
- /ɪɡˈzɔst/
- At the end of the day of finishing concrete, the women were exhausted and ecstatic.
- emotionally exhausted
- physically exhausted
- come home exhausted
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so you will exhaust yourself and worry yourself about how to keep them on the hook.
- And so you will exhaust yourself and worry yourself about how to keep them on the hook.
- The hills take longer, they exhaust you more, and they're more painful if you slowly inch your way up these hills of life.
- But around midnight we're like, OK, let's try and go to bed and try and get some sleep because it could be a while and don't want to be too exhausted.
- Do you do you get, I was just physically and mentally exhausted from day one.
- Being soft, being gentle is really nice after you have sometimes called up the fire and really exhaust yourself a little bit.
Examples
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Most arrived physically and psychologically exhausted, with few, if any, possessions.
Academic text (2011) -
She's probably exhausted after spending the last eight hours cleaning the house with her son's girlfriend.
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And so you will exhaust yourself and worry yourself about how to keep them on the hook.
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Being soft, being gentle is really nice after you have sometimes called up the fire and really exhaust yourself a little bit.
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I'm exhausted by this drama.
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By the time I helped him out of the pool, he was exhausted, silent, and humiliated.
Academic text (1994) -
Wanda would go home exhausted and not be able to sleep, worrying about the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
For all his ardor, Jacob is exhausted from the events of the preceding day.
Fiction book (1990) -
The following morning, the passing ship Messenger spotted him and rescued him, battered and exhausted, from his precarious perch.
Academic text (2013) -
After a long day of hiking, I was exhausted and could barely keep my eyes open.
Synonyms
177
4.6
Make someone tired over time because of stress or effort
108
3.4
To slowly use up energy, money, or other resources
65
2.7
To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much
62
4.1
Slowly make a person or thing weaker by repeated pressure
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1.0
To become very tired or make someone very tired
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2.1
To make a person very tired by using up their energy
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7.7
To make someone very tired
8
6.3
To make someone very tired by giving them too much to do
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9.4
To make someone very tired
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4.1
To make someone work too much so they become very tired or ill
4
4.4
To make someone or yourself very tired after long effort
4
4.6
To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort
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4.8
Make someone feel very weak and tired
3
6.0
To make someone very tired
1
6.7
To make someone very tired or stressed
1
9.0
Make someone feel weak and without energy
1
4.4
To put too much strain on the body or mind
1
7.1
To make someone very busy and tired with too much work
1
6.8
To make someone very tired by doing too much
1
7.0
Make someone tired over time from too much work or stress
1
7.4
To slowly take away energy and interest from people
To make someone very sleepy from too much activity
To make someone very tired so they cannot work or think well
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
5
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 Exhausting
Surface Forms
Morphology
exhaust = ex + haust
The apparent segmentation (ex- + haust) is etymologically correct but not productive or familiar to learners, so the 'make very tired' sense is not derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Exhaust The verb comes from Latin ex- 'out' and haurire 'to draw'. Think of your energy being 'drawn out' of you like water down a drain, which is why to exhaust someone is to make them very tired.