Definition of Exhaustion

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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.

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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

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
Conan O'Brien

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Susan Sontag

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

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

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
Richard King

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
Agnes Smedley

Exhaustion Translations

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

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