exhaustion

Plural: exhaustions

Noun

• extreme fatigue
• serious weakening and loss of energy
• the act of exhausting something entirely
• The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
• Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
• 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

Examples

• I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
• We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.

Synonyms

debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement

Related Words

exhaust, exhaustedness