exhausted

adjective

ex·​haust·​ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd 

1

: completely or almost completely depleted of resources or contents

… crops are grown in the resulting field for a year or a few years until the soil is exhausted, and then the field is abandoned …

—Jared Diamond

2

: depleted of energy : extremely tired

I mean I was just exhausted, totally exhausted. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without panting and wheezing.

—Anthony DeCurtis

Synonyms

• all in
• aweary [archaic]
• beat
• beaten
• bleary
• burned-out
• burnt-out
• bushed
• dead
• done
• drained
• fatigued
• jaded
• knackered [British]
• limp
• logy
• loggy
• played out
• pooped [slang]
• prostrate
• spent
• tapped out
• tired
• tuckered (out)
• washed-out
• wearied
• weary
• wiped out
• worn
• worn-out

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

Recent Examples on the Web

As the exhausted team works against a tight deadline to secure their bonuses, each member begins to encounter the unexplainable. —Scott Phillips, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Our miserable, exhausted motherland needs to be saved. —Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

The search for victims of Hurricane Helene dragged into its second week on Friday, as exhausted rescue crews and volunteers continued to work long days -- navigating past washed out roads, downed power lines and mudslides -- to reach the isolated and the missing. —Jeff Amy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024

In fact, the event venue was just around the corner from where a clearly exhausted POTUS appeared with ex-president Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel on June 15 at the Peacock Theatre. —Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1