EXHAUSTS Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

exhausts

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present tense third-person singular of exhaust

as in wears

to use up all the physical energy of the long day at the county fair had exhausted everyone

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as in drains

to make complete use of we had been at the theme park barely for two hours, and we were on the verge of exhausting our spending money

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Recent Examples of exhausts As the oil blockade quickly exhausts Cuba’s supply of fuel, triggering a series of lengthy, island-wide blackouts, many here are exhausted and are becoming increasingly vocal about their desire for fundamental changes in Cuba. —

Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026 Board member Nicole Gribstad also urged the committee to include an option that delays such a decision and exhausts all other financial alternatives before closing schools. —

Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026 But freedom of expression is a constant pursuit, as natural as breathing, and silencing it is an imperfect practice that exhausts the oppressor and energizes the oppressed. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026 Gauff’s movement often exhausts her opponents. —

Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026 The thought of having to tell the story of his illness again, even to herself, exhausts her. —

Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026 Anna exhausts all of her ammo without hitting Richard, which is when Lexi enters the picture. —

Sam Reed, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2026 The denial exhausts the city’s legal options for the 2022 ballot measure, known as Measure C. —

Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026 Ella has shades of Holly Hunter's intense, workaholic producer Jane from Brooks' 1987 masterpiece Broadcast News, the smartest person in any room who both exhausts and enchants everyone around her. —

Esther Zuckerman, Time, 12 Dec. 2025

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Glosserman even pointed to a familiar GEICO insurance commercial — featuring a masked killer who, much like Leslie Vernon, wears no shoes and overalls — as an example of how their cult film’s visual language has seeped into the mainstream.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
To do what was once unthinkable in the fashion the Sabres did this season starts with Dahlin, a leader who wears his heart on his sleeve every night and competes over every inch of the ice.

— Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026