exhausted

1. 1
   adjective

   Extremely tired, with little or no energy left.

   By the end of her double shift, the nurse was utterly exhausted.

   Exhausted runners collapsed on the grass just past the finish line.

   Similardrained, fatigued, weary, spent

   Oppositerested, energetic, fresh

2. 2
   adjective

   Having had its resources used up.

   The company abandoned the exhausted gas field and began drilling farther north.

   Decades of cotton farming had left the land exhausted.

   Similardepleted, spent

   Oppositeuntapped

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of exhaust.

   The army exhausted its food supplies long before help arrived.

   The committee has exhausted the topic and is ready to vote.

   Note

   One spelling serves as the simple past (the climb exhausted us) and as the past participle after have or be (we had exhausted every option). The verb also covers the technical meanings of exhaust, such as drawing every soluble substance out of a material with solvents. When the form can be compared, more exhausted or most exhausted, it has become an adjective, as in the "very tired" meaning.

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