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Definition of Exhaustion

Exhaustion The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits. An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Related Definitions: Act, An, Ancient, Being, Completely, Contents, Deprived, Draining, Employed, Emptied, Emptying, Equivalent, Exhausted, Exhaustive, Geometrical, In, It, Method, Modern, Nearly, Of, Off, Or, Out, Process, State, Strength, The, To, Was, Which

Exhaustion Quotations Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Susan Sontag The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. Mia Hamm As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. Brian Ferneyhough

Exhaustion Translations exhaustion in Norwegian is utmattelse, rovdrift exhaustion in Spanish is agotamiento exhaustion in Swedish is utmattning

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