单词 | exhausting |
释义 | exhaustingn. The action of exhaust v. in its various senses; an instance of this. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] > using up completely exhausting1539 spendingc1595 exhausture1611 exhaustment1621 dehaust1654 depletion1656 exhaustion1831 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > extracting gas or fluid exhausting1827 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > emptying a vessel of air, etc. exhaustion1661 exhausting1827 exhaust1880 1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 66 Sucke out of this realme..innumerable sommes of money yerelye, to the great exhausting of the same. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 153 The populousness of the kingdom still increaseth, notwithstanding its great exhaustings by wars, and plagues. 1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 448 The steam..must be evacuated from it, through one or other of the two exhausting valves. 1831 D. Lardner Pneumatics v. 280 The most simple form of instrument for producing the rarefaction of air is that which is called the exhausting syringe. 1853 Pract. Mech. Jrnl. 6 209 (title) Blowing and exhausting fans. 1887 Daily News 11 Nov. 3/6 Exhausting nozzles are used as well as injecting ones, so that while fresh air is supplied foul air can be removed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2020). exhaustingadj. That exhausts; chiefly, that exhausts the strength; wearying, tiring, enfeebling. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion wearyc1315 soakingc1440 tired1548 moilingc1566 wearisome1593 tiring1594 overtiring1598 tiresome1598 defatigating1634 defatigable1654 fatigable1656 fatiguing1708 fatiguesomea1734 jading1766 fagging1787 wearying1798 exhausting18.. taversome1808 harassing1833 killing1850 trashing1861 trachling1902 18.. J. M. Good System Med. (L.) A series of exhausting paroxysms succeeds. 1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 44 The misfortune..of coming after this exhausting generalizer. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 297 A mighty effort..it was but too exhausting to be repeated. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 6 There are men of esprit who are excessively exhausting to some people. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 71 The exhausting journey over the boulders and debris. Derivatives eˈxhaustingly adv. in an exhausting manner, so as to exhaust or tire out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb] > causing weariness or exhaustion travailouslya1382 wearisomelyc1735 fatiguingly1807 wearingly1870 exhaustingly1882 tiringly1894 costingly1926 gruellingly1973 1882 Buxton in 19th Cent. Nov. 791 The matter..was exhaustively (some might say exhaustingly) discussed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1539adj.18.. |
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