exhaustion.
The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Meaning & usage
The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
An exhaustive procedure
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auziō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin exhaustiōbor. English exhaustion Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.
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