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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exhausted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exhausted sleep (=because you were very tired)
▪ He finally woke from an exhausted sleep.
physically exhausted
▪ We were mentally and physically exhausted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All that's left are some barren hillsides and a couple of exhausted mines.
▪ I was exhausted every day when I first started teaching, but I'm used to it now.
▪ The exhausted dancers collapsed as they stepped off the stage.
▪ The five of them were still exhausted from their 36-hour train ride.
▪ The oxygen supply would soon become exhausted.
▪ We had been walking for over 20 miles, and we were completely exhausted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After two days they found him, an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand.
▪ And what sort of pressure could an exhausted waitress apply?
▪ But the plot fertility would become exhausted and crops would be poorer.
▪ Diminished responsibility did not mean exhausted responsibility, said Lord Taylor.
▪ In time, people wore themselves out and peace, of an exhausted sort, was restored.
▪ Sometimes it flops to the ground as if exhausted.
▪ Sufficient space is available for lexicographers to create an extra four thousand entry-versions per table before the available space is exhausted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
exhausted

exhausted \exhausted\ adj.

  1. same as burned-out, 1. [WordNet sense 1+3]

    Syn: burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).

  2. used up; completely consumed. [WordNet sense 2][Narrower terms: gone, expended, spent] WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  3. emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created. Opposite of unexhausted.

    Syn: exhausted, evacuated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exhausted

mid-17c., "consumed, used up;" of persons, "tired out," past participle adjective from exhaust (v.). Related: Exhaustedly.

Wiktionary
exhausted
  1. depleted; in a state of exhaustion. v

  2. (en-past of: exhaust)

WordNet
exhausted
  1. adj. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" [syn: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)]

  2. completely emptied of resources or properties; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells" [ant: unexhausted]

  3. drained physically; "the day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained"

Wikipedia
Exhausted (song)

"Exhausted" is the first Foo Fighters release and the lead single from the debut album. It was only issued as a promotional single, pressed on black 12" vinyl. The song is notable for being the first original Foo Fighters track released to the public, when it premiered January 8, 1995 on Eddie Vedder's Self-Pollution Radio broadcast.

Usage examples of "exhausted".

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.

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.

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.

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

Luckily, almost all the Zaks would have already exhausted their supply of bazooka rockets, because without his beam rifle he would have no choice but to use the beam saber in close-quarter combat.

Meanwhile we exhausted ourselves in efforts to get at the heart of the mystery, and after a couple of years had gone by I could see that Vivian begall to sicken a little of the adventure, and one night he told me with some emotion that he feared both our lives were being passed away in idle and hopeless endeavour.

I saw my resources all but exhausted, and I began to meditate a journey to Lisbon.

The beisa had slowed now to an exhausted trot, but the range was six hundred yards as the Count sighted across the intervening scrub and through heat-dancing air that swirled like gelatinous liquid.

Exhausted, sullen, and bereft for the moment of any other plan, the conjurer and the bird continued their journey.

In blissful ignorance of this unfortunate result of their performance, Billy Brackett and Bim sang and howled in concert, until their repertory was exhausted, when they lay down on the floor of the hut, and with the facility of those to whom camp life has become a second nature, were quickly asleep.

His eyes bleared and troubled him as tears of exhausted rage collected in the rims and gave a misty view.