Word Meanings - EXHAUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. See under Receiver. Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out;

Additional info about word: EXHAUST

To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. See under Receiver. Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out; weary. (more info) haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to 1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. 2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury. 3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley. 4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXHAUST)

• Absorb
• Swallow
• drown
• consume
• imbibe
• engross
• drink in
• suck up
• engulf
• monopolize
• exhaust
• Draft Draw
• drain
• Drain Draw
• strain
• drip
• percolate
• drop
• empty
• dry
• Jade
• Fatigue
• tire
• weary
• oppress
• wear
• harass
• worry
• Spend
• Bestow
• waste
• squander
• expend
• lay out
• disburse
• lavish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXHAUST)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill
• Inspirit
• refresh
• animate
• enliven
• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to EXHAUST)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• DISBURSE
  To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public
• DISBURSEMENT
  1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.