What is "exhausts"

Usage examples of "exhausts".

Rigorous application of the intellectual faculties consumes the blood, exhausts the vital forces, weakens the organic functions, while pallor covers the face, and the eyes sparkle with a hectic radiance.

Undue expenditure of this class of brain functions not only consumes the bodily powers, but exhausts and prevents other mental operations.

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