exhaustion
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Synonyms & Antonyms for exhaustion
Synonyms
burnout, collapse, fatigue, frazzle, lassitude, prostration, tiredness, weariness
Antonyms
refreshment, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, revitalization
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To avoid voter exhaustion with so many proposals, some members of the board may choose to hit the pause button, eventually. — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, "SF launches sweeping review of city’s business taxes," 3 July 2019 Even senior leaders who theoretically love their jobs are by no means immune from the risks of burnout and general exhaustion. — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, "Why it’s so dangerous when star employees check out," 2 July 2019 Henry Thurlow, an American animator living and working in Japan, told BuzzFeed News he has been hospitalized multiple times due to illness brought on by exhaustion. — Eric Margolis, Vox, "The dark side of Japan’s anime industry," 2 July 2019 The Baltimore Police union on Wednesday advised its members to begin sharing any feelings of exhaustion with their supervisors — and documenting the response — amid ongoing personnel shortages in patrol. — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, "Amid patrol shortage, Baltimore police union tells officers to flag exhaustion with supervisors," 27 June 2019 As Simon Reynolds has observed, British culture’s twenty-first-century obsession with revivals and remakes may indicate a deeper creative exhaustion. — Longreads, "Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible," 25 June 2019 Despite never coming true, predictions of impending resource exhaustion remain a great, recyclable excuse for massive government intervention. — George Will, National Review, "The Scarcity Scam," 13 June 2019 For more on exhaustion: Now, see how skin care has evolved within the last 100 years: Follow Allure on Instagram and Twitter, or subscribe to our newsletter for daily beauty stories delivered right to your inbox. — Alice Gregory, Allure, "I Got Fillers for My Chronic Undereye Circles, and the Results Were Impressive," 28 Apr. 2019 Helicopter parenting, along with high expectations and a societal repugnance to the possibility of failure, contributes to what American high schools have become: petri dishes of high stress and exhaustion. — Zach Schermele, Teen Vogue, "Helicopter Parenting Is Usually More Subtle Than Paying for Kids to Get Into School," 22 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exhaustion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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