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Answer for the clue "Gases ejected from an engine as waste products ", 7 letters:
exhaust

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Exhaust is a trio from Montreal featuring bass, drums, tape and bass clarinet , that started in the mid-1990s. The members are Aidan Girt (drums), Gordon Krieger (bass/ bass clarinet) and Mike Zabitsky (tape loops). Their first release was the limited release ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an exhausted sleep (= because you were very tired ) ▪ He finally woke from an exhausted sleep. exhaust sb's patience (= make someone lose patience ) ▪ He turned away from me, as if I had exhausted his patience. exhaust ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.] Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught , a forced draught ...

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n. gases ejected from an engine as waste products [syn: exhaust fumes , fumes ] system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged [syn: exhaust system ]

Usage examples of exhaust.

The valley wanted to get everything to market in one generation, indifferent to the fate of those who should come after-the passes through the mountains being choked by cars carrying to the coasts crops from increasing acreage of declining productivity or the products of swiftly disappearing forests or the output of mines that must soon be exhausted.

She might have struck her skin alight, her favorite trick spell, but she was too addled and exhausted.

The second hit the fuselage aft of the jet exhaust, cutting the aircraft in half.

Too exhausted and miserable to attempt idle conversation, Alec pressed into his corner without reply.

Chinese and Tibet and the mountain, finally dropping into an exhausted silence as alpenglow lit Everest orange.

He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

Perhaps the imagination of this earlier Ancred was exhausted by the begetting of his monster, for he was content to leave, almost unmolested, the terraced gardens and well-planted spinneys that had been laid out in the tradition of John Evelyn.

While Angekok had often slept, exhausted from his satanic ecstasies, I had explored this cavern and now it was my fervent hope that an underground stream might bear me from this fate.

Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.

They show that sin and woe are not arbitrarily bounded by the limits of time and sense in the grave, and that nothing can ever exhaust or destroy the satisfaction of true life, faith in the love of God: it abides, blessed and eternal, in the uninterrupted blessedness and eternity of its Object.

A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.

Marcus could see Azar was exhausted, for as she gathered the clothes, her limp was more pronounced.

For Bazil it was an exhausting ordeal, and his energy reserves were already low.