# exhausted

Pronunciation: say "ig-ZAW-stid" US /ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/, UK /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/

## Adjective

1. Extremely tired, with little or no energy left.
   - Simple: Very tired, with almost 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._
2. Having had its resources used up.
   - Simple: Having nothing useful left, because it has all been used up.
   - _The company abandoned the exhausted gas field and began drilling farther north._
   - _Decades of cotton farming had left the land exhausted._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of exhaust. — simple past and past participle of exhaust
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of exhaust. Use it for things that already happened, or after have or was.
   - _The army exhausted its food supplies long before help arrived._
   - _The committee has exhausted the topic and is ready to vote._

## Adjective

4. Emptied of its contents, especially of air, so that it holds a vacuum. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having had everything, especially the air, taken out of it, so it is empty.
   - _The feather and the coin fell side by side through the exhausted tube._
   - _In the exhausted flask, the water began to boil at room temperature._

## Origin

Formed from exhaust + -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/exhausted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).