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Definition of Exhausting
1. Adjective. Having a debilitating effect. "An exhausting job in the hot sun"
2. Adjective. Producing exhaustion. "The visit was especially wearing"
Definition of Exhausting
1. a. Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors.
Definition of Exhausting
1. Adjective. Very tiring. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of exhaust) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exhausting
1. exhaust [v] - See also: exhaust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhausting
Literary usage of Exhausting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brief Making and the Use of Law Books by Roger William Cooley, William Minor Lile (1909)
"Exhausting the Authorities. Having located in the Digest by the use of the ...
Fortunately, the process of exhausting the authorities is largely a ..."
2. The Southern Planter (1852)
"Here are three cereal crops in succession, and all exhausting, and with only one
... It is actually exhausting, and of course still more unprofitable, ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"receiver ; on exhausting it was extinguished. When burnt in the closed receiver,
without exhausting, it continued alight for a much longer time. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... and exhausting, and he asserts that he did almost all the work which was
afterwards published in his employer's name. He was ordained deacon by Thomas ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"consciousness of the extravagant follies and parasite vices which were exhausting
and strangling the life and energies of a once great people. ..."
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