to exhaust
- verb
- /ɪɡˈzɔst/
- Specialized
- 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.
- My vent hood would pretty much exhaust my food on the countertop instead of the stove.
Examples
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The steam comes out of the ground through the flash steam plant, and the steam plant exhausts into the binary plants which surround it.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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To improve efficiency, the factory must regularly exhaust any excess steam from the production line.
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After the race, the vehicle had to exhaust the remaining fumes to maintain optimal performance.
Synonyms
To allow a liquid, gas, or energy to flow out
Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container
Push a liquid or other substance out of something
Take people or things out of a vehicle by unloading
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A set of pipes on a vehicle that carries waste gases away from the engine
- Specialized
A pipe that collects hot gases from an engine and sends them to the exhaust pipe
- Specialized
A valve in a car engine that lets hot gases from the cylinder go outside
How Forceful
Surface Forms
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.