EXHAUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exhausted mean? 

• EXHAUSTED (adjective)
  The adjective EXHAUSTED has 3 senses:

1. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

2. depleted of energy, force, or strength

3. drained physically

  Familiarity information: EXHAUSTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXHAUSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

Synonyms:

dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out

Context example:

you look worn out

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Depleted of energy, force, or strength

Synonyms:

exhausted; spent

Context example:

exhausted oil wells

Antonym:

unexhausted (not used up completely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Drained physically

Context example:

the day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained

Similar:

drained (emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid))

 Context examples 

My own strength is exhausted, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I must say this, for the good creetur, he resumed, wiping his face, when we were quite exhausted; she has been all she said she'd be to us, and more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And not only did he outrun them, but, circling widely back on his track, he gathered in one of his exhausted pursuers.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When that occurred, he would have exhausted all possible credit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Moreover, the rats became exhausted much earlier than normal.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

Cancer-fighting T cells inside the tumor can get “exhausted” and die.

(Harnessing T-cell “stemness” could enhance cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

Come, then, and, having exhausted the Palmer, let us see what the Dunlop with the patched cover has to offer us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an instant the three of us had torn them away from him, and Holmes staggered to his feet, very pale and evidently greatly exhausted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)