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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exhaustion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heat exhaustion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nervous
▪ Yet it s a one-joke play that teases out its central idea to the point of nervous exhaustion.
▪ Behind dosed doors Diana cried her eyes out with nervous exhaustion.
▪ A week later he wrote to apologise to all six, putting his behaviour down to nervous exhaustion.
▪ Nor could they show her nervous exhaustion, her permanent anxiety for her loved ones, her acute worry about tomorrow.
▪ This probably exacerbated his tendency to long periods of nervous exhaustion, which caused his absence from his parish while he recovered.
▪ Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while.
▪ Most of the others were suffering from a degree of nervous exhaustion after the long takeover struggle.
physical
▪ They were young enough to cope with the physical exhaustion but trying to memorize so many routines became unbearable.
▪ Last month, Mellencamp had to cancel shows in Detroit and Pittsburgh because of physical exhaustion.
▪ His letters groan with temporal and climatic misfortunes, as well as complaints of physical exhaustion.
▪ It was just pure physical exhaustion and then collapse.
▪ The sheer physical exhaustion of combining a job and a young family may also leave you with no enthusiasm.
sheer
▪ In the end, sheer exhaustion and hunger made political questions remote for the majority.
▪ What had settled his son at last was sheer exhaustion, and Alan's absence.
▪ There was no fear of revolt in the countryside on the Volga, due to sheer exhaustion.
▪ The sheer physical exhaustion of combining a job and a young family may also leave you with no enthusiasm.
▪ Only sheer exhaustion would force Paul to stop.
■ NOUN
heat
▪ They didn't know that if you have ecstasy you should drink a lot of water because of the risk of heat exhaustion.
▪ In its early stages, the symptoms of fatigue and nausea mimic heat exhaustion and can confuse the rangers.
▪ Several elderly men were treated for heat exhaustion.
▪ You have to be able to handle real emergencies: sprained ankles, heat exhaustion, sudden snowstorms, canceled flights.
▪ She slumped down, near to heat exhaustion, and raked her jet hair from her temples.
▪ These tips also help prevent heat exhaustion, only several cases of which advance to potentially deadly heat stroke at the Canyon.
▪ I was feeling nauseous from heat exhaustion and had sort of passed out.
▪ Later in the day, another 1st Platoon Marine was felled by heat exhaustion.
■ VERB
suffer
▪ According to local press reports, he was suffering from exhaustion and ill-health.
▪ John-Francis worked intensely with the neglected until, suffering from exhaustion, he died at the age of thirty-three.
▪ They were believed to be suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia.
▪ He is understood to be suffering from exhaustion.
▪ She says governors told her and other parents that Mr Beatson left because he was suffering acute mental exhaustion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nervous exhaustion/strain
▪ A week later he wrote to apologise to all six, putting his behaviour down to nervous exhaustion.
▪ Behind dosed doors Diana cried her eyes out with nervous exhaustion.
▪ It could not be true that nervous strain made you lose weight.
▪ Most of the others were suffering from a degree of nervous exhaustion after the long takeover struggle.
▪ Nor could they show her nervous exhaustion, her permanent anxiety for her loved ones, her acute worry about tomorrow.
▪ Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while.
▪ This probably exacerbated his tendency to long periods of nervous exhaustion, which caused his absence from his parish while he recovered.
▪ Yet it s a one-joke play that teases out its central idea to the point of nervous exhaustion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One of the players collapsed with exhaustion and had to be carried off the field.
▪ The signs of chronic exhaustion showed in Martha's face.
▪ The soldiers were suffering from exhaustion after long days and nights of marching.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And millions upon millions, fresh troops on top of fresh troops will lead to our exhaustion.
▪ He was still out of breath, and Barnabas was panting with some exhaustion himself.
▪ I prayed for my body to behave but exhaustion was getting the better of it.
▪ Then, when it finally dropped from exhaustion, it was killed.
▪ They didn't know that if you have ecstasy you should drink a lot of water because of the risk of heat exhaustion.
▪ Too much is made of the exhaustion of war.
▪ With what appeared to be utter exhaustion, he put his head in his hands as the question reverberated in the nave.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaustion

Exhaustion \Ex*haus"tion\, n. [Cf. F. exhaustion.]

  1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

  2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

  3. (Math.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

    Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exhaustion

1640s, "fatigue," noun of action from exhaust (v.) in sense of "drawing off" of strength. Etymological sense "act of drawing out or draining off" is from 1660s in English.

Wiktionary
exhaustion

n. 1 The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up. 2 Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

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WordNet
exhaustion

  1. n. extreme fatigue

  2. serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement]

  3. the act of exhausting something entirely

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Usage examples of "exhaustion".

That ordinary alimentation, which includes the process of digestion, the subsequent vital changes involved in the conversion of food into blood, and its final transformation into tissue, causes mental languor and dullness, as well as bodily exhaustion, is attested by universal experience.

I fell in her arms, our lips fastened together, and, in a voluptuous, ardent pressure, we enjoyed an amorous exhaustion not sufficient to allay our desires, but delightful enough to deceive them for the moment.

Briefly her exhaustion became a blessing: she could sink into its depths and shut her ears to anything Anele might say.

Thus, cerebral or brain exhaustion, or debility, is usually the result of mental overwork, while sexual asthenia, or weakness is generally due to abuse of the sexual organs or to sexual excesses.

Bellis felt faintly dismayed by exhaustion when she sat with Tanner Sack and the other engineers in the afternoon, but Aum continued without apparent difficulty, shifting his attention from the conceptual problems and philosophy of the avancs to practical issues of bait, and control, and capture of something the size of an island.

But very often mothers of colicky babies experience exhaustion and defeat which sometimes can be followed by depression.

Anoshi and Bap had also descended down this road to exhaustion on which he himself was now far advanced.

At midnight, devastated by exhaustion and rage, Maruja took two of the powerful barbiturates and did not wake up until eight the next morning.

Poteet and Nacho bought supplies for the wagon, Bufe Coker rode his horse through the fields around Jacksborough, falling off, regaining his saddle and lugging his aching bones to bed in a state of exhaustion.

Though I had made a good supper I had only done so to satisfy my craving for food and to regain my strength, and sleep came to me with an irresistible force, as my physical exhaustion did not leave me the power of arguing myself out of it.

On the fifth day the wound was almost healed, but the exhaustion had left me so weak that I could not leave my bed.

Natayos was a shabbily dressed Dacite, and he was reeling with exhaustion as he staggered into the room.

Medical records said she was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, but responding to sugar and salt treatment.

At the end of twenty-four hours, my exhaustion was very great, but I did not find the sensation disagreeable, and, in the state of mind in which I was then, I was pleased with the idea that, by increasing, that weakness would at last kill me.

We were certain of turning to good account the two hours we had then to spare before parting company, which we did at the dawn of day, humiliated at having to confess our exhaustion, but highly pleased with each other, and longing for a renewal of our delightful pleasures.