Definitions for exhaust

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exhaust ex·haust

Spelling: [ig-zawst]

IPA: /ɪgˈzɔst/

Exhaust is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in exhaust (aehstux).

Definitions for exhaust

noun

1. the escape of steam or gases from the cylinder of an engine.
2. the steam or gases ejected.
3. Also called exhaust system. the parts of an engine through which the exhaust is ejected.

verb (used with object)

1. to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person:
2. to use up or consume completely; expend the whole of:
3. to draw out all that is essential in (a subject, topic, etc.); treat or study thoroughly.
4. to empty by drawing out the contents:
5. to create a vacuum in.
6. to draw out or drain off completely.
7. to deprive wholly of useful or essential properties, possessions, resources, etc.
8. Chemistry, Pharmacology. to deprive of ingredients by the use of solvents, as a drug.
9. to destroy the fertility of (soil), as by intensive cultivation.

verb (used without object)

1. to pass out or escape, as spent steam from the cylinder of an engine.

Origin of exhaust

1515-25; 1895-1900 for def 11; Latin exhaustus emptied out, drained out, past participle of exhaurīre

Examples for exhaust

What I need is noise, exhaust, and a cityscape of cab drivers honking and swearing at people.

To most writers, the subject of money is like the words of a bully—they exhaust themselves pretending to not be affected by it.

You might exhaust yourself trying to please them both which is more work than you realize.

Their historians said that toil did not wear out his body or exhaust his energy.

You'll get a hernia of your exhaust pipe if you stay so tense.

For example, there is neither an intake or exhaust manifold on the motor.

So in addition to being able to demoralize and exhaust you, the book tour can kill you.

He begins to flail and exhaust himself before submerging for good.

Is there a single spot which the eye, by any peering or prying, can fathom or exhaust?

Thad opened the exhaust valve, let the air hiss from the chamber of the lock.