'Exhaust' definitions:
Definition of 'exhaust'
From: WordNet
noun
Gases ejected from an engine as waste products [syn: exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes]
noun
System consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged [syn: exhaust, exhaust system]
verb
Wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out]
verb
Use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
verb
Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire]
verb
Use up the whole supply of; "We have exhausted the food supplies"
verb
Definition of 'Exhaust'
From: GCIDE
- Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting.] [L. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump.]
- 1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. [1913 Webster]
- A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Chem.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. [1913 Webster]
- Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.
- Syn: To spend; consume; tire out; weary. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Exhaust'
From: GCIDE
- Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, n. (Steam Engine)
- 1. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Exhaust'
From: GCIDE
- Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]
- 1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. [1913 Webster]
- Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through.
- Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.
- Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle.
- Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.
- Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.
- Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. --Knight.
- Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston.
- Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exhaust'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- ablate,
- absorb,
- assimilate,
- attenuate,
- avenue,
- backwash,
- bankrupt,
- beat,
- blackdamp,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- blow,
- blow out,
- blowhole,
- blunt,
- breathe,
- breathe hard,
- breathe in,
- breathe out,
- broach,
- burden,
- burn out,
- burn up,
- carry too far,
- cast forth,
- castrate,
- channel,
- charge,
- chokedamp,
- chute,
- clean out,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear off,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- coal gas,
- condensation trail,
- consume,
- contrail,
- cough,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- crush one,
- damp,
- dampen,
- deaden,
- debilitate,
- debouch,
- decant,
- defecate,
- defluxion,
- demasculinize,
- denude,
- deplete,
- deplume,
- desex,
- desexualize,
- despoil,
- devitalize,
- digest,
- disable,
- discharge,
- disembogue,
- disgorge,
- displume,
- dissipate,
- divest,
- do in,
- do up,
- door,
- draft,
- draft off,
- drain,
- drain of resources,
- drain off,
- drain out,
- drainage,
- draw,
- draw from,
- draw off,
- dry,
- dull,
- eat,
- eat up,
- effeminize,
- effluence,
- effluent,
- effluvium,
- efflux,
- effluxion,
- effusion,
- egress,
- ejaculate,
- eliminate,
- emanation,
- emasculate,
- emission,
- emit,
- empty,
- empty out,
- emunctory,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- erode,
- eruct,
- erupt,
- escape,
- estuary,
- etiolate,
- evacuate,
- eviscerate,
- exaggerate,
- exhalation,
- exhale,
- exhaust gas,
- exit,
- expel,
- expend,
- expire,
- extenuate,
- extravasate,
- fag,
- fag out,
- fatigue,
- find vent,
- finish,
- finish off,
- firedamp,
- flag,
- flay,
- fleece,
- floodgate,
- flow,
- flow out,
- flowoff,
- flume,
- frazzle,
- fritter away,
- fuel,
- fume,
- fumes,
- gas,
- gasp,
- give off,
- give out,
- give vent to,
- go overboard,
- go to extremes,
- go too far,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- gruel,
- gulp,
- gush,
- gush out,
- hack,
- harass,
- haunt,
- haunt the memory,
- hiccup,
- huff,
- impoverish,
- ingest,
- inhale,
- inspire,
- issue,
- jade,
- jet,
- jet propulsion,
- knock out,
- knock up,
- know no bounds,
- lay low,
- let,
- let blood,
- let out,
- liquid oxygen,
- loophole,
- lose,
- malaria,
- mephitis,
- milk,
- mitigate,
- obsess,
- open the floodgates,
- open the sluices,
- opening,
- oppress,
- out,
- outcome,
- outfall,
- outflow,
- outflowing,
- outgate,
- outgo,
- outlet,
- outpour,
- outpouring,
- overact,
- overcarry,
- overdevelop,
- overdo,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasize,
- overexercise,
- overexert,
- overexpend,
- overfatigue,
- overindulge,
- overlabor,
- overplay,
- overreact,
- overspend,
- overstrain,
- overstress,
- overstudy,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overtire,
- overtrain,
- overuse,
- overweary,
- overwork,
- pant,
- pass all bounds,
- phlebotomize,
- pick clean,
- pipette,
- pluck,
- poop,
- poop out,
- pore,
- port,
- pour,
- pour forth,
- pour out,
- prey on,
- propellant,
- propulsion charge,
- prostrate,
- protest too much,
- puff,
- pump,
- pump out,
- purge,
- rattle,
- reaction propulsion,
- reduce,
- reek,
- remove,
- respire,
- rocket propulsion,
- run out,
- run through,
- runoff,
- sally port,
- sap,
- scour out,
- send forth,
- send out,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shear,
- sigh,
- siphon off,
- skin,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- smoke,
- sneeze,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- soften up,
- spend,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spill,
- spiracle,
- spout,
- spout out,
- spurt,
- squander,
- squirt,
- steam,
- sterilize,
- strain,
- stream,
- strip,
- strip bare,
- suck,
- suck dry,
- suck out,
- surge,
- swallow,
- swallow up,
- sweep out,
- tap,
- tax,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- thrust,
- tire,
- tire out,
- tire to death,
- tucker,
- unbrace,
- unclog,
- undermine,
- unfoul,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- use up,
- vapor,
- vapor trail,
- venesect,
- vent,
- ventage,
- venthole,
- void,
- vomit forth,
- vomitory,
- vortex,
- wake,
- wash,
- waste,
- waste away,
- way out,
- weaken,
- wear,
- wear away,
- wear down,
- wear on,
- wear out,
- wear upon one,
- weary,
- weigh upon,
- weight down,
- weir,
- well,
- well out,
- wheeze,
- wilt,
- wind
Words containing 'Exhaust'
- Exhausted,
- Exhauster,
- Exhaustibility,
- Exhaustible,
- Exhausting,
- Exhaustion,
- Exhaustive,
- Exhaustively,
- Exhaustment,
- Exhaust draught,
- Exhaust fan,
- Exhaust nozzle,
- Exhaust orifice,
- Exhaust pipe,
- Exhaust port,
- Exhaust purifier,
- Exhaust steam,
- Exhaust valve,
- Exhausted receiver,
- Variable exhaust,
- exhaust fumes,
- exhaust hood,
- exhaust manifold,
- exhaust system,
- heat exhaustion,
- mental exhaustion,
- nervous exhaustion,
- exhausting tiring wearing wearying