exhausted
adjective
ex·haust·ed
ig-ˈzȯ-stəd 
1
: completely or almost completely depleted of resources or contents
… crops are grown in the resulting field for a year or a few years until the soil is exhausted, and then the field is abandoned …—
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: depleted of energy : extremely tired
I mean I was just exhausted, totally exhausted. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without panting and wheezing.—Anthony DeCurtis
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the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed
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Volatile, quarrelsome, dogmatic, and sure of his own brilliance, Reinhold outraged patrons, amassed huge debts, and turned his eldest son into an exhausted workhorse.
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Jenny Uglow,
The New York Review of Books,
4 July 2026
England have looked physically exhausted and mentally congested in each of their four matches to date.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
4 July 2026
And somehow, still have to find the strength to move through another day in a body and mind that are completely exhausted.
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Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
Back-to-back overnights left Greenwald exhausted and depressed.
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Melanie Thernstrom,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
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Jenny Uglow,
The New York Review of Books,
4 July 2026
England have looked physically exhausted and mentally congested in each of their four matches to date.
—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
4 July 2026
And somehow, still have to find the strength to move through another day in a body and mind that are completely exhausted.
—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
Back-to-back overnights left Greenwald exhausted and depressed.
—
Melanie Thernstrom,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for exhausted
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“Exhausted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhausted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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