Synonyms:
exhaust, wash_up, beat, tucker, tucker_out
Meaning: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
Synonyms:
consume, eat_up, use_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through, wipe_out
Meaning: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
Synonyms:
run_down, exhaust, play_out, sap, tire
Meaning: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
Usage examples
Intoxication is the pleasure of savages, and of all those whose employments rather exhaust their animal spirits than exercise their faculties.
They should, however, not give way to anxiety, nor exhaust themselves by vain efforts to excite in their hearts a sensibility that God has not given them.
Sometimes there would be talk about spies and informers, and then these people would exhaust their vocabulary of abuse, and Peter, of course, would apply every word of it to himself and become wild with anger.
But this actual world of experience, in which we are, and which is in us, remains both the material and the limits of our consideration: a world which is so rich in content that even the most searching investigation of which the human mind is capable could not exhaust it.
For, otherwise, we are compelled to confess that God understands an infinite number of creatable things, which he will never be able to create, for, if he created all that he understands, he would, according to this showing, exhaust his omnipotence, and render himself imperfect.
Once seated within what he already considered his new possession, the black's courage began to wane and when the motor was started and the great propeller commenced to whir, he screamed to the Englishman to stop the thing and permit him to alight, but the aviator could neither hear nor understand the black above the noise of the propeller and exhaust.