exhaust
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exhaust /ɪgˈzɔːst, ɛg-/
▶verb
- 1 (often as adj. exhausted or exhausting) tire out completely.
- 2 use up (resources or reserves) completely.
■ explore (a subject) thoroughly.
- 3 expel (gas or steam) from an engine or other machine.
■ the system through which waste gases are expelled.
– derivatives
exhaustedly adverb,
exhauster noun,
exhaustibility /-ˈbɪlɪti/ noun,
exhaustible adjective,
exhaustingly adverb.
exhaustedly adverb,
exhauster noun,
exhaustibility /-ˈbɪlɪti/ noun,
exhaustible adjective,
exhaustingly adverb.
– origin C16: from L. exhaust-, exhaurire ‘drain out’.
'exhaust' also found in these Oxford entries:
afterburner
- backfire
- catalytic converter
- four-stroke
- ground
- gruelling
- heat-seeking
- impoverish
- jet stream
- knacker
- manifold
- MOT
- muffler
- overcrop
- overdo
- overtire
- play
- ragged
- reheat
- root
- silencer
- spend
- stack
- tailpipe
- take
- tire
- tucker
- turbocharger
- wastegate
- wear
