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Definition of Exhausted
1. Adjective. Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted. "You look worn out"
Similar to: Tired
2. Adjective. Depleted of energy, force, or strength. "Exhausted oil wells"
3. Adjective. Drained physically. "The day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained"
Definition of Exhausted
1. Adjective. Depleted; in a state of exhaustion. ¹
2. Verb. (past of exhaust) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exhausted
1. exhaust [v] - See also: exhaust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhausted
Literary usage of Exhausted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Management and Railroads: Being Part of a Brief Submitted to the by Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1911)
"... OT ECONOMIES IN OPERATION HAVE BEEN exhausted The railroads contend that they
have practically exhausted the possibilities of economies in operation. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"The Spectra of Metallic Arcs in an exhausted Globe." By A. FOWLER, AECSc., FRAS,
and HOWARD PAYN, FRAS Communicated by Sir NORMAN LOCKYER, KCB, LL. ..."
3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"I wish to mention, in justice to myself, that it was not my fault, and that I am
quite exhausted and heartbroken. Need I say more? ..."
4. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... The Pia- who had exhausted their food and could no longer hold surrender out,
capitulated to the Peloponnesians. ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... ev'n as fawns That with a flight exhausted o'er the plain Droop at the last,
all strength within them gone; 300 So droop ye, ..."
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