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Exhausting   /ɪgzˈɔstɪŋ/   Listen
Exhausting

adjective
1.
Having a debilitating effect.  Synonym: draining.
2.
Producing exhaustion.  Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying.  "The visit was especially wearing"


Exhaust

verb
(past & past part. exhausted; pres. part. exhausting)
1.
Wear out completely.  Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up.  "I'm beat" , "He was all washed up after the exam"
2.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, run through, use up, wipe out.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
3.
Deplete.  Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire.  "We quickly played out our strength"
4.
Use up the whole supply of.
5.
Eliminate (a substance).  Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release.  "The plant releases a gas"



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"Exhausting" Quotes from Famous Books



... a familiar illustration from the gaming-table, to break the stoutest Bank in the world by a perpetual multiplication of your bets, and he was modest enough to remember that he was but one man against some thousands, to contend with all of whom would be exhausting. ...
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... was worn out with watching and working, and from nervous laughter she passed to tears so heart-broken and so exhausting that Mrs. Colwyn never again dared to accuse her openly of insensibility. And perhaps it was a good thing for Janetta that she did break down in this way. The doctor who had attended her father was growing very uneasy about her. He had not been deceived by her apparent ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... keep on as stay still," mused the philosophical Bill, baling out the water that now came tumbling aboard in far too great quantities to render the situation a pleasant one. So the day passed and it was not till the next morning, after an exhausting night of constant terror that the launch was about to sink, that Bill saw the smoke of a distant steamer as he rose ...
— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... among the visitors, one whose coming perceptibly lightened the tedium of those days. Marion had the good fortune to see him in time not to be taken by surprise. Seated on the veranda after an exhausting recital for the benefit of Huntington, she perceived the figure of a horseman—yes, it was a horseman—riding out of the pines toward the corrals. She stared. He was so little and so lost between his pony, which seemed extraordinarily big, and his sombrero, which undoubtedly ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... is very exhausting to both of our tempers," I added, "and I think we would do better ...
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