Word Finder - exhausted

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely

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Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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To empty by drawing or letting out the contents

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to exhaust a treasury

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To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end

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I exhausted my strength walking up the hill.

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To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy

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The marathon exhausted me.

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To bring out or develop completely

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To discuss thoroughly or completely

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That subject has already been fully exhausted.

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To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives

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to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether

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Very tired; in a state of exhaustion.

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The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.

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Depleted of resources.

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The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.

She was exhausted but couldn't sleep.

Finally, exhausted by tears, Destiny fell asleep.

She was exhausted but sleep seemed unlikely.

Exhausted by thought and emotion, she drifted into sleep.

She was exhausted, and morning would arrive all too soon.

That night she went to bed exhausted, but sleep eluded her.

He was exhausted and wired with angry energy.

The poor man is exhausted.

She started to cry again, too exhausted to stop.

If anything, she was exhausted and in a recovery room unlike any she'd ever seen before.

His gaze went to her neck, his resolve solidifying at the sight of her exhausted features and red cheek.

In Howie's exhausted state, inducing him to sleep was not difficult.

A short time later, when she was too exhausted to move, she lay still and silent on her side.

When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

Given her first chance to rest in over two days, she sighed, exhausted and irritated at having to dig her own clothing out of a box.

Exhausted and in need of a bath, she finally agreed to let him take her home.

Exhausted. I don't know why I'm so tired.

The exhausted French officer was Ramballe and the man with his head wrapped in the shawl was Morel, his orderly.

Exhausted, she reached them some time later, praying for a break or a snack or something!

He took a long shower, exhausted, before retrieving his now lukewarm dinner from the house.

When she seemed sufficiently exhausted, he lay on his back.

She blinked back tears, emotionally exhausted.

Gradually, his warmth sank into her skin, and she lay still, exhausted yet soothed by the heat of his body.

Every winter the supply is exhausted by the washers, and every summer it is renewed by the river.

Among the non-metallic minerals are nitrate of soda, borate of lime, coal, salt and sulphur, together with various products derived from these minerals, such as iodine, sulphuric acid, &c. Guano is classed among the mineral products and still figures as an export, though the richest Chilean deposits were exhausted long before the war with Peru.

But the effort had exhausted Assyria.

In succeeding years the process is repeated on the untouched sides of the trunk, until the tree has been cut all round and exhausted.

His prestige as a general was shaken, and his treasury exhausted by these fruitless irregular campaigns.

Exhausted, Dusty took a silent Bianca's hand and led her back to the others.

She didn't seem surprised to find others in the living room and took a seat next to Effie, looking less a nighttime specter than an exhausted victim.

As they lay exhausted, locked in each other's eyes, Jackson drawled, "I am definitely starting to see some upside to our situation."

Edison in the United States, were engaged in struggling with the difficulties of producing a suitable carbon incandescence electric lamp. Edison constructed in 1879 a successful lamp of this type consisting of a vessel wholly of glass containing a carbon filament made by carbonizing paper or some other carbonizable material, the vessel being exhausted and the current led into the filament through platinum wires.

He was ordered to give up his quest and follow a cow which would meet him, and to build a town on the spot where she should lie down exhausted.

All colours are complementary, or go in pairs; each pair makes up the whole activity of the retina, and so is equivalent to white; and the two partial activities are so connected that when the first is exhausted the other spontaneously succeeds.

All her neighbours were either decadent or exhausted states; and France, the most powerful of the Western powers, was her firm ally.

The resources of Sweden were still very far from being exhausted, and, during 1710 and 1711, the gallant Magnus Stenbock upheld her military supremacy in the north.

When the Riksdag met in 1760, the indignation against the Hat leaders was so violent that an impeachment seemed inevitable; but once more the superiority of their parliamentary tactics prevailed, and when, after a session of twenty months, the Riksdag was brought to a close by the mutual consent of both the exhausted factions, the Hat government was bolstered up for another four years.

These forests of pinaster, apart from the production of timber in a once treeless district, have a great economic value as a source of turpentine, which is largely obtained from the trees by a process analogous to that employed in its collection from P. sylvestris; the resin is yielded from May to the end of September, the cuts being renewed as the supply fails, until the tree is exhausted; the trunks are then felled and used in the manufacture of charcoal and lamp black; much tar and pitch is also obtained from these pinaster forests.

The Langobards, German in their faults and in their strength, but coarser, at least at first, than the Germans whom the Italians had known, the Goths of Theodoric and Totila, found themselves continually in the presence of a subject population very different from anything which the other Teutonic conquerors met with among the provincials - like them, exhausted, dispirited, unwarlike, but with the remains and memory of a great civilization round them, intelligent, subtle, sensitive, feeling themselves infinitely superior in experience and knowledge to the rough barbarians whom they could not fight, and capable of hatred such as only cultivated races can nourish.

But his strength was nearly exhausted.

Very high mountain ranges usually consist of many ridges, among which rain-clouds are entangled in their ascent, and in such cases precipitation towards the windward side of the main range, though on the leeward sides of the minor ridges of which it is formed, may occur to so large an extent that before the summit is reached the clouds are exhausted or nearly so, and in this case the total precipitation is less on the leeward than on the windward side of the main range; but in the moderate heights of the United Kingdom it more commonly happens from the causes explained that precipitation is prevented or greatly retarded until the summit of the ridge is reached.

In this way an exact comparison of the weights in vacuo can be computed, but of course the simplest way of arriving at the result would be by the construction of a strong air-tight case which can be completely exhausted of air by an air-pump, and in which the weighing can then be effected in vacuo.

The Bombay government exhausted its balances in 1897, and was subsequently dependent on grants from the government of India.

It was a hot day and she was already exhausted.

The relations with France gradually became colder, and at the end of his reign Charles favoured an alliance with England; he died in 1378 at the age of sixty-two, prematurely exhausted by arduous work.

Both coal and iron ore were formerly worked, but the coal is exhausted and the ore unsuitable for modern processes.

And when at the middle of the century the other great mendicant orders of Carmelites and Austin Friars, and also Servites arose their propagation showed that the possibilities of the mendicant movement had not been exhausted by the Dominicans and Franciscans.

The unfortunate province served as a transit route for Turkish expeditions against Hungary and Transylvania, and was exhausted by continual requisitions.

On his accession to office as president he found the country exhausted and disorganized, more especially in the department of finance, and the congress was on the whole hostile to him.

But the positive influence of Parmenides's teaching was not yet exhausted.