exhausted

adjective

ex·haust·ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd

: 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

: 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

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

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David believes this is just her exhausted mind playing tricks, attributing it to postpartum depression, stress, and fatigue. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024 Jeb Bush being Hispanic Nine years ago, the American political landscape was very different, inasmuch as there were Republican presidential candidates who were normal and boring in the way that an exhausted, uptight high school principal who hates dancing might be. —

Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024 This means that athletes can train longer before becoming exhausted. —

Maria Berentzen, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024 Constant exposure to the unfriendly and immunosuppressive environment around the tumor impairs white blood T cells and forces them into an exhausted, dysfunctional state. —

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