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verb (used with object)

to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.

to use up or consume completely; expend the whole of: He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation.

to draw out all that is essential in (a subject, topic, etc.); treat or study thoroughly.

to empty by drawing out the contents: to exhaust a tank of fuel oil.

to create a vacuum in.

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to draw out or drain off completely.

to deprive wholly of useful or essential properties, possessions, resources, etc.

Chemistry, Pharmacology. to deprive of ingredients by the use of solvents, as a drug.

to destroy the fertility of (soil), as by intensive cultivation.

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verb (used without object)

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

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noun Machinery.

11.

the escape of steam or gases from the cylinder of an engine.

12.

the steam or gases ejected.

13.

Also called exhaust system. the parts of an engine through which the exhaust is ejected.

Origin:
1515–25; 1895–1900 for def. 11; < Latin exhaustus emptied out, drained out, past participle of exhaurīre

Related forms

ex·haust·er, noun

ex·haust·i·ble, adjective

ex·haust·i·bil·i·ty, noun

mul·ti·ex·haust, noun

non·ex·haust·ed, adjective

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non·ex·haust·i·ble, adjective

pre·ex·haust, verb (used with object)

un·ex·haust·ed, adjective

un·ex·haust·ed·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
1. tire, enervate, prostrate, debilitate. 2. waste, squander, dissipate. 4. void. 12. fumes, smoke, vapor.

Antonyms
1. strengthen, invigorate. 4. fill.

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Breathing refers to an engine's ability to fill its cylinders with an air-fuel mixture and expel the exhaust gases.

Voice recognition highlights the importance of making use of data exhaust.

Automobile exhaust produces elevated lead levels in urban air.

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Breathing refers to an engine's ability to fill its cylinders with an air-fuel mixture and expel the exhaust gases.

Voice recognition highlights the importance of making use of data exhaust.

Automobile exhaust produces elevated lead levels in urban air.

Idling school buses spew tons of exhaust into the air, putting children at risk when they leave school at the end of each day.

We use hot exhaust that would have been vented up the smokestacks.

The sound generated by gushing rocket exhaust can rattle a launch vehicle into pieces.

The carbon monoxide evidently leaked from the boat's exhaust system, the authorities said.

And merely following the law does not exhaust a firm's ethical responsibilities, any more than it does an individual's.

Contrails are artificial clouds that form around the tiny aerosol particles in airplane exhaust.

Scientists have long suspected that contrails, the trails of white exhaust that jets leave in their wake, can affect climate.

Now, big gaudily painted trucks race past one another in both directions, blaring horns and spewing black exhaust.

The maze of cloud streams in this image is the result of exhaust from ship engines.

But swimmers who try to fight rip currents quickly exhaust themselves and may drown.

He suggests building greenhouses on this land, and pumping in the exhaust from the power station.

Automobiles, such as this bus seen in a file photo, spew exhaust that deposits metallic fragments on leaves.

Some will exhaust their available hydrogen within a few million years.

Doctor, a couple of my team members want you to turn on the exhaust fan before starting the autopsy.

Almost all mopeds rely on the pressure build-up in the exhaust system to help turn the pistons inside the engine.

As the rotor turns, it uncovers slots in the housing, admitting air and then letting exhaust out.

Clearly, books do not exhaust the whole of human culture.

Most other dryers simply sense the temperature of exhaust air.

Puff is attached near the exhaust pipe of your vehicle.

The descent engines were designed to disperse exhaust as widely as possible, to disturb the landing site as minimally as possible.

At high rpm's its shriek commingled with the booming exhaust note to form a cacophony worthy of the name.

In the past it has used this right to make car manufacturers cut down the exhaust emissions that cause smog.

Exhaust fumes contribute to serious human and wildlife illnesses.

Plug-in electric hybrids give off less exhaust than gas guzzlers.

The engine is stock, and the bike has the usual suspension and exhaust upgrades.

The exhaust thus goes out the back even faster than the air came in the front.

Farmers can exhaust up to one-fifth of their annual income attempting to control damage by these pests.

After all, diesel is not traditionally thought of as a winner in the clean exhaust sweepstakes, nor is it known for speeds.

So there you are, stuck behind a big rig when it belches a blast of diesel exhaust.

It eliminates the goo that poisons the catalyst and prevents the exhaust from being cleaned up properly.

Exhaust vents incorporated into the design framework enhance airflow which virtually eliminates fog and condensation.

It also can use waste hot water directly from other industrial waste streams such as steam, hot water or exhaust.

The grinding task of being a party leader without the comforts of ministerial office would exhaust anyone.

Air pollution is usually thought of as smoke from large factories or exhaust from vehicles.

In catalytic converters, platinum breaks down hydrocarbon residues in exhaust fumes into carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Washington hasn't begun to exhaust the potential programmes available to it to suppor the economy.

First of all, sustainable tourism does not exhaust the resource base on which it is constructed.

Energy density problems are not as critical with urban, short haul, vehicles where particulate exhaust is particularly damaging.

Sniffing the exhaust means that this happens automatically.

Street trees can reduce airborne particulates from car and bus exhaust.

But she speculates that fine particles spewed from car exhaust pipes are likely culprits.

In fact his case seems as vapid and noxious as a jet-engine's exhaust.

Check to make sure the exhaust pipe isn't blocked with snow.

If you manage to exhaust this resource, a well-organized links page provides numerous starting points for further information.

The answer is to inject urea into a catalytic converter in the exhaust.

Very comfortable, drys quickly due to the unique water exhaust holes in the sides of the shoe.

Now, if you're using its exhaust to heat water or something, then that's different.

Second, it desperately needs to clean its urban centres of pollutants largely produced by exhaust pipes.

Outside a van rumbles to life, coughing exhaust among the towering racks of drying cod that line a small harbor.

The hot exhaust gases are then blasted through a nozzle to produce thrust.

The compressed burning gas is released through the exhaust.

Generic provisions will not help: many banks will exhaust them this year.

Wills, who was asphyxiated while working in his garage by the exhaust fumes from the motor of his car, has served to call.

One of the drawbacks is road grit and car exhaust blowing into your windows.

You're more likely to die from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash, a new study says.

But their design allows a significant amount of unburned fuel to be lost with exhaust gas.

Make sure you exhaust any online catalogs and archives before you ask them silly questions.

The fact that the inlet and exhaust ports are, for part of the stroke, open simultaneously means that the engine's.

Exhaust and emissions from transportation and industry have fundamentally changed our atmosphere.

Engine exhaust is cooled in order to reduce infrared signatures.

The gas escapes from the exhaust valve at high pressure and strikes the ear with disagreeable.

TAs are supposed to make our lives easier, not further exhaust us.

They form high in the atmosphere when the mixture of water vapor in aircraft exhaust and air condenses and freezes.

IT had all the trappings of a low-rider showdown: jacked-up sound systems, revving engines and billowing clouds of exhaust smoke.

Apologies for double post- you might also want to consider how much extra exhaust you'll be pumping into the air.

Trappers kill the cowbirds by asphyxiating them with automobile exhaust or by breaking their necks.

Contras get funding and the people of the world get to suck on the carbon dioxide exhaust.

The exhaust manifold is cast into the cylinder head, a one-piece design that reduces the temperature of exhaust gases.

He had lain down near his car, with a pipe rigged from the car exhaust to his face.

The engine runs smoothly, since the silencer dampens the exhaust gases entering the exhaust pipe.

Byerly had committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide from the exhaust of his car.

The fine particulates emitted from the exhaust of vehicles create significant health problems, specially the pregnant women.

They form high in the atmosphere when the mixture of water vapor in aircraft exhaust and air condenses and.

Briehl had died of inhalation of automobile exhaust fumes.

It was soon clear that it was only a matter of time before the internet would exhaust its supply of addresses.

But soot particles from automobile exhaust or other types of pollution can also serve the purpose.

Because it doesn't need exhaust parts, there is much greater freedom of design.

The moisture could back up into the exhaust pipe, freeze and keep the engine from starting.

However experts reckon that the size of the spill will exhaust the world's supply of booms very.

It's a full-service moped shop that carries parts and accessories, as well as engine and exhaust kits to power up a moped.

The other hunter roared away in a cloud of exhaust smoke.

Normally, these vents release car exhaust from the deep holds as vehicles are driven on and off the vessel.

These stylized vents are descended from the open portholes and exposed exhaust pipes of the past.

Optimists hope that a bad government will eventually exhaust voters' patience.

Moments before liftoff, the engines of the space shuttleAtlantis ignite, shooting out a plume of exhaust over the.

They say perchlorate comes from the exhaust of rocket engines.

Later it may have been employed by hunters to exhaust their prey, allowing them to get close enough to use projectiles.

Tons of factory and dealer-installed options were available, including a cowl-induction hood, chambered exhaust and dual carbs.

Warm, contaminated air is pushed upward to the ceiling, where it can be efficiently extracted by an exhaust air system.

The catalytic converter on your exhaust system contains cerium and lanthanum.

Exhaust condensate from hydrogen cars has to be recycled to electrolysis cells.

Its slender body hides a heat-reducing exhaust system, noise suppressors and bays that conceal weapons when not in use.

The air is boiling, and filled with muffler exhaust.

Joule plans to use an even cheaper raw material: the carbon-dioxide exhaust from power stations.

They have a limited amount of propellant and dump as much energy into as few ions as possible, to get maximum exhaust velocity.

Then, he places the chamber on the vaporizer's exhaust vent.

Portugal seemed to exhaust the benefits of the euro before the currency was born.

The resulting silicon carbide gas, then, becomes the exhaust that propels the spacecraft forward.

Conventional cars have to dump waste energy in the form of heat in the exhaust and from the radiator.

Nuclear thermal rocket engine exhaust conditioning in open cycle and closed cycle systems.

In the control room technicians pore over second-by-second readings of the levels of different pollutants in the exhaust.

Laredo's downtown streets smell of diesel exhaust and roasted elotes-ears of corn.

In addition, there would be no exhaust being produced in stalled traffic because all the cars would be running on batteries.

Systems to treat the exhaust would impose further costs.

The plant's cooling system is struggling to keep up, and in the control room warnings chirp as the exhaust temperature rises.

The hot-water exhaust produced by the fuel cells is used to help heat the building and provide hot water.

Every new coal plant would be paying the steep price to separate carbon from its exhaust stream and store it underground.

As of now the main problem is not sound but air pollution that is caused by the exhaust of internal combustion engines.

The kitchen chimney smoke and exhaust fumes combine with the dangling lights to give the main street an eerie vibe.

The result is that overall fuel consumption and exhaust emissions per head of population inch down incredibly slowly.

The traffic's chaotic, the exhaust fumes intolerable, and the sidewalks are dodgy-when there are sidewalks at all.

And the trucks and busses will still be belching diesel exhaust in my face.

Be sure your vacuum is in good working order and does not release exhaust or dust back into the room.

The kitchen chimney smoke and exhaust fumes combine with the dangling lights to give the main street an.

Pacific salmon exhaust themselves fatally-they breed themselves to death-at the first opportunity they get.

Part of an engine nacelle and an exhaust ejector are visible at left.

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World English Dictionary

exhaust (ɪɡˈzɔːst)

—vb
1.	to drain the energy of; tire out: to exhaust someone by constant questioning
2.	to deprive of resources, etc: a nation exhausted by war
3.	to deplete totally; expend; consume: to exhaust food supplies
4.	to empty (a container) by drawing off or pumping out (the contents)
5.	to develop or discuss thoroughly so that no further interest remains: to exhaust a topic of conversation
6.	to remove gas from (a vessel, etc) in order to reduce the pressure or create a vacuum; evacuate
7.	to remove or use up the active ingredients from (a drug, solution, etc)
8.	to destroy the fertility of (soil) by excessive cultivation
9.	(intr) (of steam or other gases) to be emitted or to escape from an engine after being expanded

—n
10.	gases ejected from an engine as waste products
11.	a. the expulsion of expanded gas or steam from an engine
	b. (as modifier): exhaust stroke
12.	a. the parts of an engine through which the exhausted gases or steam pass
	b. (as modifier): exhaust valve; exhaust pipe

[C16: from Latin exhaustus made empty, from exhaurīre to draw out, from haurīre to draw, drain]

ex'hausted

—*adj*

ex'hauster

—n

ex'haustible

—*adj*

exhausti'bility

—n

ex'hausting

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

exhaust

1530s, "to draw off or out, to use up completely," from L. exhaustus, pp. of exhaurire "draw off, take away, use up," from ex- "off" + haurire "to draw up" (as water), from PIE *aus- "to draw water." Noun sense of "waste gas" (1848) was originally from steam engines. Related: Exhausting

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