exhausted

«exhausted» in Mova's school dictionary: extremely tired, with no energy left — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (exhausted); also the past form of «exhaust» (exhaust, exhausts, exhausted, exhausting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Exhausted means extremely tired, with no energy left. tree →

2) Exhausted means completely used up, so none is left. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and health lessons, people feel exhausted after hard exercise or too little sleep, and need rest, food and water. In stories, an exhausted character is worn out after a journey or a fight. In science and geography, resources can be exhausted. Phrases: «completely exhausted», «exhausted all the ideas».

examples

• After the cross-country run we were exhausted. tree →
• The exhausted puppy fell asleep at once. tree →
• She was exhausted after staying up so late. tree →
• The explorers were cold, hungry and exhausted. tree →
• We have exhausted our supply of paper. tree →
• He had exhausted every idea and still couldn't solve it. tree →
• Sick and exhausted, he reached home. tree →

note

Stronger than «tired»: so do not say «very exhausted»; say «completely exhausted». «Exhausting» = making you exhausted. The «h» is silent: «ig-ZOR-stid». In a maths problem, «the supply was exhausted» means the amount left is zero.

In the corpora

• By Friday she's exhausted: one fib needs another fib, and another.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «exhausted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.