exhaustion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

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

3. 3
   noun

   the act of exhausting something entirely

4. 4
   noun

   serious weakening and loss of energy

5. 5
   noun

   extreme fatigue

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   An exhaustive procedure

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.