exhaustion
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪɡˈzɔːs.tʃən/
exhaustion (uncountable)
- The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
- We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
- Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
- I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
- (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
- (dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
- (maths) An exhaustive procedure
- See also Thesaurus:fatigue
- French: épuisement
- German: Erschöpfung
- Portuguese: exaustão, esgotamento
- Russian: истоще́ние
- Spanish: agotamiento
- French: harassement, épuisement
- German: Erschöpfung, Ermattung
- Portuguese: exaustão
- Russian: истоще́ние
- Spanish: cansancio
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