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1. Wear out completely
   "This kind of work exhausts me";
   - wash up, beat [informal], tucker [N. Amer, informal], tucker out [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Use (resources or materials) over time in order to function
   "We exhausted our savings";
   - consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, run through, wipe out
    
3. Deplete, exhaust or weaken
   "exhaust one's savings";
   - run down, play out, sap, tire
    
4. Use up the whole supply of
   "We have exhausted the food supplies"
    
5. Eliminate (a substance)
   "combustion products are exhausted in the engine";
   - discharge, expel, eject, release
    
6. Bring out, discuss or develop completely
   "to exhaust a subject"

1. Gases ejected from an engine as waste products
   - exhaust fumes, fumes
    
2. System consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged
   - exhaust system
    
3. [Brit] A pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car
   - tailpipe [N. Amer], exhaust pipe [Brit]

Derived forms: exhausts, exhausting, exhausted

See also: use

Type of: drop, empty, expend, fag [informal], fag out [Brit, informal], fatigue, gas, jade, knacker [Brit, informal], outwear, pipage, pipe, piping, spend, system, tire, tire out, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary

Part of: automobile engine

Encyclopedia: Exhaust