exhaust

exhaust is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
2. transitive verb. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
3. transitive verb. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
4. transitive verb. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
5. transitive verb. To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
6. adjective. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
7. adjective. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
8. noun. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
9. noun. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
10. noun. system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged
11. noun. gases ejected from an engine as waste products

    Synonyms: fumes

12. verb. wear out completely

    "This kind of work exhausts me"

    "I'm beat"

    Synonyms: beat, tucker

13. verb. eliminate (a substance)

    "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"

    "the plant releases a gas"

    Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release

14. verb. use up the whole supply of

    "We have exhausted the food supplies"

15. verb. use up (resources or materials)

    "this car consumes a lot of gas"

    "We exhausted our savings"

    Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat

16. verb. deplete

    "exhaust one's savings"

    "We quickly played out our strength"

    Synonyms: sap, tire

Synonyms

fumes, beat, tucker, discharge, eject, expel, release, consume, deplete, eat, sap, tire

Common word forms

exhausts, exhausted, exhauster, exhausting, exhaustable, exhaustless

Words from these letters

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