exhaust
verb
[ ɪɡˈzɔːst ]
• make (someone) feel very tired.
• "her day out had exhausted her"
Similar:
tire out,
wear out,
overtire,
overtax,
fatigue,
weary,
tire,
drain,
run someone into the ground,
run someone ragged,
enervate,
sap,
debilitate,
prostrate,
enfeeble,
wear oneself to a shadow,
do in,
take it out of one,
wipe out,
fag out,
knock out,
shatter,
wear oneself to a frazzle,
frazzle,
nearly kill,
knacker,
poop,
tucker out,
root,
tiring,
wearying,
taxing,
fatiguing,
wearing,
enervating,
draining,
sapping,
debilitating,
arduous,
strenuous,
uphill,
onerous,
punishing,
demanding,
exacting,
burdensome,
gruelling,
back-breaking,
crushing,
crippling,
killing,
murderous,
hellish,
knackering,
exigent,
• use up (resources or reserves) completely.
• "the country has exhausted its treasury reserves"
Similar:
use up,
run through,
go through,
consume,
finish,
deplete,
expend,
spend,
dissipate,
waste,
squander,
fritter away,
empty,
milk,
drain,
suck dry,
impoverish,
blow,
bleed,
• expel (gas or steam) from or into a particular place.
• "you should never exhaust bathroom air into your attic"
exhaust
noun
• waste gases or air expelled from an engine, turbine, or other machine in the course of its operation.
• "buses spewing out black clouds of exhaust"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘draw off or out’): from Latin exhaust- ‘drained out’, from the verb exhaurire, from ex- ‘out’ + haurire ‘draw (water), drain’.
