exhaust

From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɔːst/

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exhaust (third-person singular simple present exhausts, present participle exhausting, simple past and past participle exhausted)

1. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely

   The water was exhausted out of the well.

   Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

2. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents

   to exhaust a well

   to exhaust a treasury

3. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end

   My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.

   to exhaust one's resources

   You're exhausting my patience.

   I exhausted my strength walking up the hill.

4. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy

   The marathon exhausted me.

5. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely
6. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely

   That subject has already been fully exhausted.

7. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives

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

• spend, consume
• tire out, weary
• See also Thesaurus:fatigue

• exhausted
• exhausting
• exhaustion
• exhaustive
• exhaustible

exhaust (plural exhausts)

1. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
2. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
3. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the […] hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

4. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
5. exhaust gas.

exhaust (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

• exhaust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhaust in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• exhaust at OneLook Dictionary Search

From Latin exhaustus.

exhaust (feminine exhausta, masculine plural exhausts or exhaustos, feminine plural exhaustes)

1. out of (no longer in possession of)
2. exhausted

• exhaurir
• exhaustió
• exhaustiu

• “exhaust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “exhaust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.