exhausted

adjective

ex·​haust·​ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd 

1

: completely or almost completely depleted of resources or contents

… crops are grown in the resulting field for a year or a few years until the soil is exhausted, and then the field is abandoned …

—Jared Diamond

2

: depleted of energy : extremely tired

I mean I was just exhausted, totally exhausted. I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without panting and wheezing.

—Anthony DeCurtis

Synonyms

• all in
• aweary [archaic]
• beat
• beaten
• bleary
• burned-out
• burnt-out
• bushed
• dead
• done
• drained
• fatigued
• jaded
• knackered [British]
• limp
• logy
• loggy
• played out
• pooped [slang]
• prostrate
• spent
• tapped out
• tired
• tuckered (out)
• washed-out
• wearied
• weary
• wiped out
• worn
• worn-out

Examples of exhausted in a Sentence

the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed

Recent Examples on the Web

Still, the arrival of the Kenyan police and others from across the Caribbean can’t come soon enough for Haiti’s exhausted police ranks. —Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024

Months of delays in American assistance, a spiraling number of casualties and severe shortages of ammunition have taken a deep toll, evident in the exhausted expressions and weary voices of soldiers engaged in daily combat. —Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 14 May 2024

Her exhausted but super proud parents are my daughter Quincy and her husband Ethan. —Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico — Desperate and exhausted, the migrants gathered around a tree that offered them some shade from the unforgiving sun. —Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 May 2024

Balla was crashing with McGrady and remembers coming home one night, exhausted and disoriented, to find the drummer enjoying a beer in the backyard with his roommate. —Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024

By the end of the episode, the war has drawn to an exhausted close, and the residents of the 4077th are scattering after many tearful farewells. —Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 May 2024

Brenneman’s Miriam is an exhausted, but defiant Jewish mother. —Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2024

The group had already walked about 25 miles that day when members stopped, exhausted, for a break. —Lenny Rashid Ruvaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1