adj
Meaning 1
Very tired; zonked (out).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exhausted
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/
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General-American: /ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/
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cot-caught-merger: /ɪɡˈzɑstɪd/
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adj
Meaning 2
Depleted of resources.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Emptied of contents, especially of air; that has been made into a vacuum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of exhaust
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
depleted of energy, force, or strength
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil
- the exhausted food sources
- exhausted oil wells
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spent
Antonyms: unexhausted
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
drained physically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the day's shopping left her exhausted
- he went to bed dog-tired
- was fagged and sweaty
- the trembling of his played out limbs
- felt completely washed-out
- only worn-out horses and cattle
- you look worn out
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵh Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵhs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h2ews- Proto-Indo-European *h2ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auzjō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustusder. English exhaust English -ed English exhausted From exhaust + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: exhaust — very tired
- Catalan: fatigat — very tired
- Danish: udmattet — very tired
- Esperanto: lacega — very tired
- Finnish: uupunut — very tired
- Finnish: väsyksissä — very tired
- Finnish: poikki — very tired
- French: épuisé — very tired
- French: fatigué — very tired
- Galician: esgotado — very tired
- Galician: exausto — very tired
- German: erschöpft — very tired
- Hungarian: kimerült — very tired
- Italian: esausto — very tired
- Italian: affaticato — very tired
- Italian: esaurito — very tired
- Khmer: នឿយ (nɨəy) — very tired
- Louisiana Creole: fatigé — very tired
- Macedonian: истоштен (istošten) — very tired
- Macedonian: исцрпен (iscrpen) — very tired
- Māori: ngenge — very tired
- Māori: ru(w)ha — very tired
- Māori: ruhi — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: utslitt — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: kjørt — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: utkjørt — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: utmattet — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: utmatta — very tired
- Norwegian Bokmål: gåen — very tired
- Norwegian Nynorsk: utsliten — very tired
- Norwegian Nynorsk: utmatta — very tired
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gåen — very tired
- Polish: wyczerpany — very tired
- Portuguese: esgotado — very tired
- Portuguese: exausto — very tired
- Portuguese: fatigado — very tired
- Portuguese: afadigado — very tired
- Romanian: epuizat — very tired
- Romanian: extenuat — very tired
- Romanian: istovit — very tired
- Scottish Gaelic: claoidhte — very tired
- Spanish: exhausto — very tired
- Spanish: agotado — very tired
- Swedish: utmattad — very tired
- Ukrainian: виснажений (vysnaženyj) — very tired
- Unami: wikwihëla — very tired
- Azerbaijani: qurtarmış — drained of resources
- Azerbaijani: bitmiş — drained of resources
- Azerbaijani: tükənmiş — drained of resources
- Bulgarian: изчерпан (izčerpan) — drained of resources
- Catalan: exhaust — drained of resources
- Finnish: ehtynyt — drained of resources
- Finnish: ehdytetty — drained of resources
- German: erschöpft — drained of resources
- Hungarian: kimerült — drained of resources
- Hungarian: kimerített — drained of resources
- Hungarian: kiaknázott — drained of resources
- Italian: esaurito — drained of resources
- Māori: tohetea — drained of resources
- Māori: pau — drained of resources
- Māori: mahiti — drained of resources
- Māori: tītōhea — drained of resources
- Māori: hūiki — drained of resources
- Norwegian: utpint — drained of resources
- Norwegian Bokmål: uttømt — drained of resources
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uttømd — drained of resources
- Polish: wyczerpany — drained of resources
- Romanian: epuizat — drained of resources
- Romanian: sărăcit — drained of resources
- Russian: исче́рпанный (isčérpannyj) — drained of resources
- Russian: вы́работанный (výrabotannyj) — drained of resources
- Spanish: exhausto — drained of resources
- Spanish: agotado — drained of resources
- Swedish: slut — drained of resources
- Swedish: uttömd — drained of resources
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