Exhaustion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exhaustion \Ex*haus"tion\, n. [Cf. F. exhaustion.]
     1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of
        emptying completely of the contents.
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     2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of


        being deprived of strength or spirits.
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     3. (Math.) An ancient geometrical method in which an
        exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent
        to the modern method of limits.
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     Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety
           of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and
           quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exhaustion
       n 1: extreme fatigue
       2: serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: {debilitation}, {enervation},
           {enfeeblement}]
       3: the act of exhausting something entirely

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "exhaustion":
     abatement, ablation, absorption, assimilation, attenuation,
     attrition, blunting, breakdown, burning up, cachexia, cachexy,
     chronic ill health, circulatory collapse, cleaning out, clearance,
     clearing, collapse, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crackup,
     damping, deadening, debilitation, debility, decrease, decrement,
     decrepitude, defecation, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescence,
     depletion, depreciation, devitalization, digestion, dilution,
     discharge, discharging cargo, dissipation, dissolution, drain,
     drainage, draining, drawing out, dulling, eating up, effemination,
     egress, elimination, emptying, enervation, enfeeblement, erosion,
     evacuation, evaporation, evisceration, excretion, exhaustedness,
     exhausting, expending, expenditure, extenuation, fatigue,
     feebleness, finishing, fragility, frailty, healthlessness,
     hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, impoverishment,
     inanition, infirmity, ingestion, invalidism, invalidity,
     languishing, languishment, lassitude, leakage, loss, mitigation,
     morbidity, morbidness, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion,
     nervous prostration, neurasthenia, off-loading, peakedness,
     poor health, prostration, reduction, relaxation, removal,
     shrinkage, sickliness, slackening, softening, spending,
     squandering, thinning, tiredness, unhealthiness, unloading,
     unsoundness, unwholesomeness, using, using up, valetudinarianism,
     venting, voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting,
     wasting away, weakening, weakliness, wear and tear, weariness,
     wearing, wearing away, wearing down