exhaust

Part of speech: verb

To draw off entirely; empty; drain.

Part of speech: verb

To reduce; weaken.

Part of speech: verb

To examine or discuss to the uttermost.

Part of speech: adjective

Exhaustible.

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Usage examples "exhaust":

  1. She did well to ask herself whether the general's almost volcanic passion would not soon exhaust itself, and turn from her own fading charms to those of women who were his equals in age. - "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)", John Holland Rose.
  2. The lectures waste the time of the student and exhaust the energy of the teacher; but unless the lecturers give them and the studious attend, how can the university know that the shiftless stay away? - "An American at Oxford", John Corbin.
  3. The fourteenth stair leading to the engine- room is not taken, but there's an exhaust pipe passes under it, and it becomes too hot to sit on. - "No Man's Land", H. C. McNeile.