(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~s you, it makes you so tired, either physically or mentally, that you have no energy left.
Don’t ~ him...
VERB: V n
~ed
She was too ~ed and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
= worn out
ADJ
~ing
It was an ~ing schedule she had set herself.
= gruelling
ADJ
2.
If you ~ something such as money or food, you use or finish it all.
We have ~ed all our material resources...
They said that food supplies were almost ~ed.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
If you have ~ed a subject or topic, you have talked about it so much that there is nothing more to say about it.
She and Chantal must have ~ed the subject of babies and clothes.
VERB: V n
4.
The ~ or the ~ pipe is the pipe which carries the gas out of the engine of a vehicle. (mainly BRIT)
N-COUNT
5.
Exhaust is the gas or steam that is produced when the engine of a vehicle is running.
...the ~ from a car engine...
The city’s streets are filthy and choked with ~ fumes.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl