Word Finder - exhausting

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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 tiring.

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This task is exhausting!

Hastings's personal task was to provide the ways and means for this exhausting war.

Friis died on the 5th of December 1570, a few days before the peace of Stettin, which put an end to the exhausting and unnecessary struggle.

The idealizing poetry of passion, which found a genuine voice in Catullus and the elegiac poets, could not prolong itself through the exhausting licence of successive generations.

Diplomatic interviews, exhausting journeys, impressive mass meetings, brilliant literary propaganda - all these methods were employed by him to the utmost limit of self-denial.

A scion of the rival Cantacuzenian family was elected by the pasha's orders, and he, after exhausting the principality for the benefit of the Divan, was in turn deposed and executed in 1716.

Patten in 1824; whilst in 1881 Rankine Kennedy resuscitated the idea for the purpose of exhausting filament electric lamps.

Her voice told him she was as bone-weary as he from her exhausting trip.

Maintaining a relationship with Josh was exhausting enough.

Another method consists in mixing the powdered bark with milk of lime, drying the mass slowly with frequent stirring, exhausting the powder with boiling alcohol, removing the excess of alcohol by distillation, adding sufficient dilute sulphuric acid to dissolve the alkaloid and throw down colouring matter and traces of lime, &c., filtering, and allowing the neutralized liquid to deposit crystals.

Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, &c., and true parasites which actually live on and in the tissues of the plants.

All this resurrection is exhausting, I need a nap.

This colouring power is due to the presence of polychlorite, a substance whose chemical formula appears to be C4 8 1-160018, and which may be obtained by treating saffron with ether, and afterwards exhausting with water.

We trudged through the next few weeks marginally well though the schedule was exhausting to all and, in spite of our efforts, our other lives were suffering.

This may be done by soaking the wood in the hot oil for several hours, but the better way is to place the seasoned timber in an iron chamber in which a partial vacuum is created by exhausting the air.

Gabe had become edgier over the past day, and she couldn't help but wonder what had happened.  Whatever it was, it hadn't been when he was around her.  Although exhausting, their journey had been relatively peaceful.

Exhausting as the Turkish wars were to the Venetian treasury, her trade was still so flourishing that she might have survived the strain had not the discovery of the Cape route to the Indies cut the tap-root of her commercial prosperity by diverting the stream of traffic from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. When Diaz rounded the Cape in 1486 a fatal blow was struck at Venetian commercial supremacy.

We hugged each other when our exhausting project was completed.

The power of the Hansa had gone; the Dutch were enfeebled by their contest with Spain; England's sea-power was yet in the making; Spain, still the greatest of the maritime nations, was exhausting her resources in the vain effort to conquer the Dutch.

His first intention was to seek complete seclusion in Egypt or Italy, to recover health and strength after his long and exhausting labours.

When direct attack is no longer practicable, it is possible to extinguish the fire by sealing the mine workings, and exhausting the supply of oxygen.

By means of a piece of stretched rubber tubing, this crucible is supported in the mouth of an ordinary funnel which is connected with an exhausting apparatus; and water holding in suspension fine scrapings of asbestos, purified by boiling with strong hydrochloric acid and washing with water, is run through it, so that the perforated bottom is covered with a layer of felted asbestos.

It consisted of a spherical glass vessel opening below by means of a stop-cock and narrow nozzle into the cylinder of an "exhausting syringe," which inclined upwards from the extremity of the nozzle.

He was now sixty-four, and his life had been a continuous experience of exhausting Temporary p g retirement.

The fact is that raising children can be physically and emotionally exhausting.

These enenlies are as a rule so conspicuous that we do not look on their depredations as diseases, though the gradual deterioration of hay under the exhausting effects of root-parasites like Rhinanthus, and the onslaught of Cuscuta when unduly abundant, should teach us how unimportant to the definition the question of size may be.

The incessant and exhausting labours to which Calvin gave himself could not but tell on his fragile constitution.

The rotation of crops is not adopted as a principle of cultivation; but in practice it is well known that a succession of exhausting crops cannot be taken in consecutive seasons from the same field, and the advantage of fallows is widely recognized.

Those tedious and exhausting wars did not prevent Peter from attending to internal affairs, and he displayed as a reformer even more vigour and tenacity than as a general in Greats the field.

Contemporaneously other events were menacing the ascendancy and exhausting the treasury of the republic. In 1453 Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, and although Venice entered at once into treaty with the new power and desired to trade with it, not to fight with it, yet it was impossible that her possessions in the Levant and the archipelago should not eventually bring her into collision with the expanding energy of the Mussulman.

Positive blowers and exhausting apparatus of a great variety of forms have been used in mines for producing artificial ventilation.

At this time, largely owing to the exhausting struggle with the Basutos, the Free State Boers, like their Transvaal neighbours, had drifted into financial straits.

But the besiegers were still weak in numbers and their labours were very exhausting.

They may be extracted by exhausting the plant-tissues with a dilute acid, and precipitating the bases with potash, soda, lime or magnesia.

The sodium sulphate is afterwards fluxed with calcium carbonate and coal, and a mixture is thus obtained from which sodium carbonate can be extracted by exhausting it with water.

In Behar it has begun to replace indigo, and some success was achieved in Orissa, Assam and Madras; but jute is a very exhausting crop, and requires to be planted in lands fertilized with silt or else with manure.

For eight years (1621-29) the exhausting and expensive Polish war dragged on.

He won the victory of Agincourt (October 25, 1415), and then seized Caen and part of Normandy, while France was exhausting herself in the feuds of Armagnacs and Burgundians.

Vegetables on Ice for Miniature Piglets The recent heat wave has been exhausting for everyone and animals are no exception.

By any standards, it's an exhausting program of races that would challenge the most carefully honed athlete.

His somewhat tongue-in-cheek immoral displays earn the full approval of the young Nik Cohn, who writes the book at an exhausting intensity.

The process may be accelerated by exhausting the desiccator; this so-called vacuum desiccation is especially suitable for the concentration of aqueous solutions of readily decomposable substances.

The exhausting labours of the vice-chancellorship were followed by an illness (1887); and after this he relinquished the hope of producing any great original writing.

Another scenario involves the exhausting attempts to get baby to go to bed in the first place.

Dressing and undressing an infant can be quite a chore, however, and adjusting a car seat to baby's heavy sleepers and coats can be exhausting as well as unpleasant for baby.

The first few days at home with your infant can be both exhilarating and exhausting.

In addition, if you had a Cesarean birth, you'll need additional rest and just walking from the couch to the nursery can be exhausting.

After exhausting these resources, investigate foreclosure proceedings in your state.

Being a teen model -even once a month- can be an exhausting experience that doesn't always work out for the best, but many agents can help make the experience easier for budding models to handle.

Planning a wedding can be exhilarating, and exhausting -- but these packages and venues in Las Vegas provide the best when it comes to advanced planning.

Spending time with a liar can be frustrating and exhausting, so if the person does not want to seek help, you will need to decide if it's worth your energy to remain supportive.