EXHAUSTED


Meaning of EXHAUSTED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an exhausted sleep (= because you were very tired )

He finally woke from an exhausted sleep.

physically exhausted

We were mentally and physically exhausted.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

All that's left are some barren hillsides and a couple of exhausted mines.

I was exhausted every day when I first started teaching, but I'm used to it now.

The exhausted dancers collapsed as they stepped off the stage.

The five of them were still exhausted from their 36-hour train ride.

The oxygen supply would soon become exhausted .

We had been walking for over 20 miles, and we were completely exhausted .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After two days they found him, an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand.

And what sort of pressure could an exhausted waitress apply?

But the plot fertility would become exhausted and crops would be poorer.

Diminished responsibility did not mean exhausted responsibility, said Lord Taylor.

In time, people wore themselves out and peace, of an exhausted sort, was restored.

Sometimes it flops to the ground as if exhausted .

Sufficient space is available for lexicographers to create an extra four thousand entry-versions per table before the available space is exhausted .

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