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Definition of exhaustion in English: exhaustionnoun ɪɡˈzɔːstʃ(ə)nɛɡˈzɔːstʃ(ə)nɪɡˈzɔstʃ(ə)n mass noun1A state of extreme physical or mental tiredness. he was pale with exhaustion Example sentencesExamples - The combat life of this famous pilot was not the fanciful image of an undaunted superhero but one of considerable physical and mental exhaustion as well as trauma.
- She will demonstrate how to resolve problems such as anxiety, mental exhaustion, digestive and skin problems using herbs.
- After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude.
- But when things are liberated, they pass into extreme forms and exhaustion, culminating in a new kind of imprisonment.
- With burnout, the professional loses the ability to cope with daily life as a function of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.
- Jengo was finding it hard to catch up with Shi, due to extreme exhaustion.
- Supreme confusion warred with mental exhaustion for dominance over her visage.
- The medical costs of caring for him and the mental anxiety and exhaustion of living with him finally overwhelmed her.
- Steve was napping frequently, though I think it may have been photo trip fatigue rather than physical exhaustion.
- The American star admitted herself to hospital late on Wednesday, suffering from extreme exhaustion.
- They've played before and are a perfect match when it comes to energy levels and desire to terrorize the other until both have passed out from mental exhaustion.
- Mental and physical exhaustion retards the growth of body and mind, and it often causes a psychosomatic illness.
- Physical exhaustion contributes to errors of judgement, just as machine fatigue contributes to breakdowns and malfunctions.
- What was most striking about the run-up to the peace deal was the morbid fixation on the physical and mental exhaustion of the parties.
- It was as though her mental exhaustion had infiltrated her physical being.
- He was unable to speak from exhaustion, physical pain and mental anguish.
- The peak summer heat results in extraordinary mental and physical exhaustion, sleeplessness and occasionally depression.
- In the light of an electric bulb dazzling at a distance, you try to study his face for signs of exhaustion - physical as well as emotional.
- Naturally, such acute physical exhaustion has a direct mental parallel.
- Nothing is worse than chronic irritability, a feeling of exhaustion and mental fatigue.
Synonyms extreme tiredness, overtiredness, fatigue, weariness, lack of energy, enervation, debilitation, debility, faintness, prostration, enfeeblement, lassitude jet lag Medicine inanition, asthenia 2The action of using something up or the state of being used up. the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves Example sentencesExamples - He decided to make a precautionary landing on an interstate highway as his fuel supply neared exhaustion.
- In essence, imperial overstretch demonstrates how America's ongoing exhaustion of its economic resources undermines important national security objectives.
- At last, farmers escaped from the vicious trade-off between soil exhaustion and leaving land idle.
- The exhaustion of a deposit, the discovery of new reserves, civil war, a change in government, or a new trade agreement can affect supplies.
- The collapse of complex societies follows exhaustion of resources, climatological change and/or increasing levels of entropy.
- Of course, at high levels, geographic concentration of organizations may signal intense localized competition and exhaustion of resources.
- Government policy of granting very small claims gave everyone a chance, but also led to rapid exhaustion of claims and large rushes to new fields.
- Each day, populations alternated between active growth and nutrient exhaustion.
- Bahrain was the first Gulf Arab state to produce oil, in 1932, but its reserves are now near exhaustion.
- Any treatment that can improve the healing of pressure ulcers will be beneficial in preventing the exhaustion of medical resources.
- As the stock of the DAT nears exhaustion, perhaps we should be considering a CD version.
- The practice of burning stubble in the cereal region also increased soil exhaustion.
- It is the world's largest violin playing just for the exhaustion of our natural resources.
- In every case, it said finite reserves of these minerals were approaching exhaustion and prices would rise steeply.
- This egg quality decline was attributed to the exhaustion of lipid and protein reserves required to produce viable eggs.
- MacLean briefly discusses the exhaustion of southern soils.
Synonyms consumption, depletion, using up, expenditure draining, emptying, sapping 3Logic
The process of establishing a conclusion by eliminating all the alternatives. Example sentencesExamples - This would be an improvement on Antiphon's argument and Bryson is getting close to the method of exhaustion as rigorously applied by Archimedes.
- This argument from exhaustion is not conclusive.
- This result, discovered by a heuristic argument, can be converted into a rigorous proof by using the method of exhaustion or integration.
- Euclid and Archimedes utilized two important techniques to prove theorems from their axioms: reductio ad absurdum arguments, and a method of exhaustion.
- Maclaurin appealed to the geometrical methods of the ancient Greeks and to Archimedes' method of exhaustion in attempting to put Newton's calculus on a rigorous footing.
Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin exhaustio(n-), from Latin exhaurire 'drain out' (see exhaust). Definition of exhaustion in US English: exhaustionnounɪɡˈzɔstʃ(ə)niɡˈzôsCH(ə)n 1A state of extreme physical or mental fatigue. he was pale with exhaustion Example sentencesExamples - The combat life of this famous pilot was not the fanciful image of an undaunted superhero but one of considerable physical and mental exhaustion as well as trauma.
- She will demonstrate how to resolve problems such as anxiety, mental exhaustion, digestive and skin problems using herbs.
- He was unable to speak from exhaustion, physical pain and mental anguish.
- With burnout, the professional loses the ability to cope with daily life as a function of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.
- What was most striking about the run-up to the peace deal was the morbid fixation on the physical and mental exhaustion of the parties.
- It was as though her mental exhaustion had infiltrated her physical being.
- Naturally, such acute physical exhaustion has a direct mental parallel.
- In the light of an electric bulb dazzling at a distance, you try to study his face for signs of exhaustion - physical as well as emotional.
- Mental and physical exhaustion retards the growth of body and mind, and it often causes a psychosomatic illness.
- Nothing is worse than chronic irritability, a feeling of exhaustion and mental fatigue.
- They've played before and are a perfect match when it comes to energy levels and desire to terrorize the other until both have passed out from mental exhaustion.
- The peak summer heat results in extraordinary mental and physical exhaustion, sleeplessness and occasionally depression.
- After five weeks in combat these soldiers sunk into a state of extreme exhaustion and lassitude.
- But when things are liberated, they pass into extreme forms and exhaustion, culminating in a new kind of imprisonment.
- Jengo was finding it hard to catch up with Shi, due to extreme exhaustion.
- The medical costs of caring for him and the mental anxiety and exhaustion of living with him finally overwhelmed her.
- Supreme confusion warred with mental exhaustion for dominance over her visage.
- Physical exhaustion contributes to errors of judgement, just as machine fatigue contributes to breakdowns and malfunctions.
- The American star admitted herself to hospital late on Wednesday, suffering from extreme exhaustion.
- Steve was napping frequently, though I think it may have been photo trip fatigue rather than physical exhaustion.
Synonyms extreme tiredness, overtiredness, fatigue, weariness, lack of energy, enervation, debilitation, debility, faintness, prostration, enfeeblement, lassitude 2The action or state of using something up or of being used up completely. the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves Example sentencesExamples - The collapse of complex societies follows exhaustion of resources, climatological change and/or increasing levels of entropy.
- Each day, populations alternated between active growth and nutrient exhaustion.
- Bahrain was the first Gulf Arab state to produce oil, in 1932, but its reserves are now near exhaustion.
- The practice of burning stubble in the cereal region also increased soil exhaustion.
- In essence, imperial overstretch demonstrates how America's ongoing exhaustion of its economic resources undermines important national security objectives.
- He decided to make a precautionary landing on an interstate highway as his fuel supply neared exhaustion.
- MacLean briefly discusses the exhaustion of southern soils.
- Any treatment that can improve the healing of pressure ulcers will be beneficial in preventing the exhaustion of medical resources.
- At last, farmers escaped from the vicious trade-off between soil exhaustion and leaving land idle.
- In every case, it said finite reserves of these minerals were approaching exhaustion and prices would rise steeply.
- Government policy of granting very small claims gave everyone a chance, but also led to rapid exhaustion of claims and large rushes to new fields.
- Of course, at high levels, geographic concentration of organizations may signal intense localized competition and exhaustion of resources.
- This egg quality decline was attributed to the exhaustion of lipid and protein reserves required to produce viable eggs.
- As the stock of the DAT nears exhaustion, perhaps we should be considering a CD version.
- It is the world's largest violin playing just for the exhaustion of our natural resources.
- The exhaustion of a deposit, the discovery of new reserves, civil war, a change in government, or a new trade agreement can affect supplies.
Synonyms consumption, depletion, using up, expenditure 3Logic
The process of establishing a conclusion by eliminating all the alternatives. Example sentencesExamples - Euclid and Archimedes utilized two important techniques to prove theorems from their axioms: reductio ad absurdum arguments, and a method of exhaustion.
- This result, discovered by a heuristic argument, can be converted into a rigorous proof by using the method of exhaustion or integration.
- Maclaurin appealed to the geometrical methods of the ancient Greeks and to Archimedes' method of exhaustion in attempting to put Newton's calculus on a rigorous footing.
- This argument from exhaustion is not conclusive.
- This would be an improvement on Antiphon's argument and Bryson is getting close to the method of exhaustion as rigorously applied by Archimedes.
Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin exhaustio(n-), from Latin exhaurire ‘drain out’ (see exhaust). |