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Exhaust   /ɪgzˈɔst/   Listen
Exhaust

noun
1.
Gases ejected from an engine as waste products.  Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes.
2.
System consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged.  Synonym: exhaust system.
verb
(past & past part. exhausted; pres. part. exhausting)
1.
Wear out completely.  Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up.  "I'm beat" , "He was all washed up after the exam"
2.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, run through, use up, wipe out.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
3.
Deplete.  Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire.  "We quickly played out our strength"
4.
Use up the whole supply of.
5.
Eliminate (a substance).  Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release.  "The plant releases a gas"



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"Exhaust" Quotes from Famous Books



... fire-spouting locomotive with its deafening exhaust and strident whistle, clanging bell and glowing fire-box actually frightened him. As he stood close by the track and it came on threateningly, he backed away, his rifle held in his crooked arm, ready ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... of Wyoming" is the case selected by American historians and poets to exhaust their indignation against English cruelty in employing the Indians in the civil war, we will not dismiss it with the above cursory remarks, but will examine it with some degree ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson
... jet blast!" said the co-pilot, now identified as Brick Talley. "Like the V Two rockets when the Germans made 'em. Vanes in the exhaust blast, no kidding! Landing, and skidding in on their tails like they do, they haven't speed enough to give wing flaps a grip on the air, even if they had wings to put wing flaps on. Those dinkuses are things to have bad ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... reformer. At present he is only known to the public as the editor of the 'Humanitarian Harbinger;' but his select circle of friends are well aware that he is devoting his ripened genius to the production of a work called the 'Progressional Principia,' which will be in four volumes, and exhaust the whole subject of social science. This immense undertaking is a favorite subject of his ordinary conversation. He is probably, at this very moment, giving a general outline of the book to that gentleman ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... point I want to make is that unless there is a mother house which is going to create a reserve of spiritual energy, the active work of the Order is going to suffer. The impulse to save souls might easily exhaust itself in the individual. A few disappointments, unceasing hard work, the interference of a bishop, the failure of financial support, a long period in which his work seems to have come to a standstill, all these are ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie


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