exhaustion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=haus=tion
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

exhaustion, n. [Cf. F. exhaustion.].

•  The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.  [1913 Webster]
•  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.  [1913 Webster]

  " The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exhaustion, n.
1 the act or an instance of exhausting; the state of being exhausted.
2 a total loss of strength.
3 the process of establishing a conclusion by eliminating alternatives.

Etymology

LL exhaustio (as EXHAUST)

THESAURUS

exhaustion

abatement, ablation, absorption, assimilation, attenuation, attrition, blunting, breakdown, burning up, cachexia, cachexy, chronic ill health, circulatory collapse, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, collapse, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crackup, damping, deadening, debilitation, debility, decrease, decrement, decrepitude, defecation, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, devitalization, digestion, dilution, discharge, discharging cargo, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drainage, draining, drawing out, dulling, eating up, effemination, egress, elimination, emptying, enervation, enfeeblement, erosion, evacuation, evaporation, evisceration, excretion, exhaustedness, exhausting, expending, expenditure, extenuation, fatigue, feebleness, finishing, fragility, frailty, healthlessness, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, impoverishment, inanition, infirmity, ingestion, invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, lassitude, leakage, loss, mitigation, morbidity, morbidness, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, off-loading, peakedness, poor health, prostration, reduction, relaxation, removal, shrinkage, sickliness, slackening, softening, spending, squandering, thinning, tiredness, unhealthiness, unloading, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, using, using up, valetudinarianism, venting, voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting, wasting away, weakening, weakliness, wear and tear, weariness, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

ROGET THESAURUS

exhaustion

Waste

N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.

Fatigue

N fatigue, weariness, yawning, drowsiness, lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion, sweat, dyspnoea, anhelation, shortness of breath, faintness, collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy, goneness, fatigued, tired, weary, drowsy, drooping, haggard, toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten, faint, done up, used up, knocked up, bushed, exhausted, prostrate, spent, overtired, overspent, overfatigued, unrefreshed, unrestored, worn, worn out, battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered, breathless, windless, short of breath, out of breath, short of wind, blown, puffing and blowing, short-breathed, anhelose, broken winded, short-winded, dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic, ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat, fatiguing, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, weary, trying.

Impotence

N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.