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to exhaust

to exhaust

10 4.8
To remove gas or steam from a machine
  • verb
  • /ɪɡˈzɔst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : expulsar
  • The mechanical fans were located in the attic of each home and exhausted radon gas above the roofline.
  • exhaust the air
  • exhaust through dispersion

My vent hood would pretty much exhaust my food on the countertop instead of the stove.

Examples

  • The steam comes out of the ground through the flash steam plant, and the steam plant exhausts into the binary plants which surround it.

  • In the third scenario, the biofilter was covered and treated air exhausted from a dispersion fan.

    Academic text (1997)
  • So we try really hard to not basically, you know, you know, smoke or exhaust, you know, on that kind of thing.

  • "We could spend a week here and still not exhaust the possibilities."

    Fiction book (2000)
  • In the end, perhaps the people of Old Europe simply exhausted the potential of the technology they had at hand.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Which allows you to exhaust the hot air when you did the Weld done properly.

  • Air from the compost building is exhausted to the biofilter by four large computer-controlled fans.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The mechanic fixed the car's engine, ensuring that it could exhaust all the gases safely.

  • To improve efficiency, the factory must regularly exhaust any excess steam from the production line.

  • After the race, the vehicle had to exhaust the remaining fumes to maintain optimal performance.

Synonyms

to release
vsto exhaust
446 2.7

To allow a liquid, gas, or energy to flow out

is narrower, used for engine removal of gases and vapours
to expel
vsto exhaust
34 5.0

Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container

is used for gases or vapours from engines or plants
to eject
vsto exhaust
20 4.1

Push a liquid or other substance out of something

is about steady removal of gas or vapour from engines, not sudden squirts
to discharge
vsto exhaust
12 4.4

Take people or things out of a vehicle by unloading

is often used for system outputs like engines rather than general escape

Antonyms

217 3.0

To take in things such as liquid, light, or information

Compounds

exhaust pipe
  • Specialized
4 3.2

A pipe that carries gas from the engine out the back of a car

4 3.2

A fan that moves smoke or moist air out of a room to make it less stuffy

exhaust system
  • Specialized
4 3.3

A set of pipes on a vehicle that carries waste gases away from the engine

Smoke and gases that a car engine releases into the air

exhaust manifold
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A pipe that collects hot gases from an engine and sends them to the exhaust pipe

exhaust valve
  • Specialized
1 4.7

A valve in a car engine that lets hot gases from the cylinder go outside

A short, low sound made by an engine when the exhaust pushes out air

exhaust hood
  • Specialized
5.1

A metal cover with a fan above a stove that removes smoke and steam

How Forceful

to exhaust
  • Specialized
10 4.8
to discharge
12 4.4
to emit
91 4.4
to release
446 2.7

Surface Forms

exhaust infinitive
exhausted past
exhausted past participle
exhausting present participle
exhausts third person singular

Morphology

exhaust = ex + haust

Although this sense is closest to the literal 'draw out' meaning of the components, 'haust' is not a recognizable English base for learners, so the relation is not transparently inferable.

Etymology

Exhaust The verb comes from Latin ex- 'out' and haurire 'to draw'. It gives the picture of a machine that 'draws out' or pushes out a gas, so to exhaust a substance is to send it out of a system.