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
Examples of exhausted in a Sentence
the exhausted runner crossed the finish line and just collapsed
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In this romantic drama, Blackpink’s Jisoo stars as Seo Mi-rae, an exhausted webtoon producer who has no time for romance.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
The streets today carry the same potential for mass mobilization, but Iranian civil society is more exhausted.
—Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, an exhausted fan base watches on.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Exhausted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhausted. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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