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exhausted meaning

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  • Verb
    1. simple past tense and past participle of exhaust.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore exhaustedSUPmost exhausted
      1. Depleted; in a state of exhaustion.
        1. The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.
        2. The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Jim overtrained and found that he was exhausted by the time of the competition.
        • Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose,all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.
        • Lying on a sofa, her skin dead-white, eyes shut, and face shielded by a raised arm, she looks exhausted and conspicuously unseductive.

    Meaning of exhausted for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "exhausted" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Verbs
          • Verb forms
            • Participles
              • Past participles
              • Verb simple past forms
          Difficultness: Level 1
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          Definiteness: Level 5
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          Definite    ➨     Versatile
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