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Answer for the clue "Exhaustive ", 6 letters:
tiring

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Word definitions for tiring in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
That tires or tire. n. 1 (context uncountable English) Action of the verb ''to tire''. 2 (context falconry English) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger. v (present participle of tire English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting , wearing , wearying ]

Usage examples of tiring.

Or perhaps it was only a tiring of the eyes, a distractedness, some small attack of weakness such as old people are prone to.

When a man's fancies should turn to more than long tiring walks," Lee Lawrence remarked sourly.

Now this has been a very tiring day, and while there are other messages for all of you, these will come by tube and are to be divulged on a need-to-know basis.

The others at the dining table simply sat, stunned at such an unexpected drama at the end of a tiring day.

Thinking that all of her nights out with Cord might be tiring Susan out, Emily asked, "Are you going out with Cord again tonight?

She was tiring rapidly, she hadn't recovered her strength from the long weeks of almost constant nausea.

He was like a machine, never tiring, wired to pick up on details everyone else missed.

I was beginning to fret that Ariel might not realize that the way down was going to be as long and tiring as the way up.

He began to appreciate the endless hours toiling for Bruenor in the mines, and the miles and miles of running Drizzt had led him through during their sessions as his blows started to fall with increasing frequency on his tiring opponent.

The Xorlarrin mages kept five times their number of duergar at arm's length for most of the day by raising walls of fire and ice, and lashing out with sweeping blasts of destructive energy—but their wizards were tiring, exhausting their spells.

He'd thought sewer duty had been tiring, but it hadn't been half so tiring as being a gate guard.

And -- I could if I wished give you quite a few more examples of this -- the more intensively a task requires our energies, arousing and exalting us at one time, tiring and depressing us at another, the more easily we may come to neglect this wellspring, just as when we are carried away by some intellectual work we easily forget to attend to the body.

After he had said to me, 'You are tiring yourself,' I was at last able to stop straining at conversation.

I wanted it to pass through one area after the next, leaving each behind, as music moves on from theme to theme, from tempo to tempo, playing each out to the end, completing each and leaving it behind, never tiring, never sleeping, forever wakeful, forever in the present.

Coll elbowed his way through them, hurrying to get back to the tiring house and see whether or not Gar had collapsed from the strain.