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exhaustion

noun
/ɪɡˈzɔːs.t͡ʃən/

Etymology

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 *auzjō 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.

  1. borrowed from exhaustiō

Definitions

  1. The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.

    • We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.

  2. Supreme tiredness

    Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

    • I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.

  3. The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).

    2. An exhaustive procedure

The neighborhood

Derived

heat exhaustion, operational exhaustion, overexhaustion, proof by exhaustion, sexhaustion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exhaustion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01exhaustion02tiredness03tired04tire05weary06toil07grueling08gruelling

A definitional loop anchored at exhaustion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exhaustion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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