exhaustingly
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4.9
- adverb
- /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋli/
:
agotadoramente
- And because she knew this, she did not call the doctor or inform her parents until the cramps became so painful, so exhaustingly and frighteningly painful, that she could not bear it.
- so exhaustingly
And the entire narrative of this exhaustingly sycophantic podcast is for Megan to say to her fans.
- And the entire narrative of this exhaustingly sycophantic podcast is for Megan to say to her fans.
Examples
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And the entire narrative of this exhaustingly sycophantic podcast is for Megan to say to her fans.
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I am saying that to account for what happens here, to give an adequate description of what this something is, which might be described as an event or not (I would be tempted to say not, as the situation is exhaustingly familiar), doesn't require bringing race in as race is already in.
Blog text (30) -
Everything the GOP ever says and does is exhaustingly the opposite!
Blog text (29) -
OK, I just have to start by saying that politics is exhaustingly and obliteratingly exhausting.
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Instead, we've been treated to an exhaustingly long campaign that cost more money than any presidential race we've ever seen before... and now the money is pretty much gone.
Blog text (4) -
She had arrived late for their date in a café on Ben-Yehuda Street, unrefreshed, after an exhaustingly long shift in the hospital.
Fiction book (1993) -
To sit across the table and talk with someone you love is itself a complex engagement, with an exhaustingly subtle flow of information; to go to bed with someone—to carry your conversation into the realm of the body, a realm of insecurity and fear as well as pleasure—was always fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand another person and make yourself understood.
Fiction book (1998) -
After an exhaustingly long day at work, she fell straight asleep as soon as she got home.
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The hike was exhaustingly steep, leaving everyone gasping for breath by the time they reached the summit.
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He found the meeting exhaustingly boring and struggled to stay awake throughout.
Synonyms
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7.7
You do something with great effort that makes you very tired
Antonyms
How Exhausting
Surface Forms
Morphology
exhaustingly = exhausting (transparent) = exhaust + ing + ly
Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'exhausting' using '-ly'; the adverbial meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word exhaustingly comes from ex- 'out' and haust 'to draw or drink', the same root in exhaust and exhausted. Think of it like your energy being 'drawn out' or 'drained', so something done exhaustingly makes you very tired.