Exhaustion

noun

/ɪɡˈzɔːs.tʃən/

Word Frequency: 4.0

Definitions

1.nounThe point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.

"We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract."

2.nounSupreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

"I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away."

3.nounThe removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.

4.nounThe removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).

5.nounAn exhaustive procedure

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