exhausted

adjective

ex·haust·ed ig-ˈzȯ-stəd

: 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

: 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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Trujillo said the crews were exhausted but proud of their work. —

Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025 The animals are nervous, exhausted, aggressive and bewildered by this alarming change to their routine. —

Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025 There was a time when stress disrupted my sleep and left me feeling constantly exhausted. —

Raquel Gomes, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 Ukraine is clearly exhausted and is having difficulty raising fresh troops to replace its killed and wounded and to hold back further Russian advances in the Donetsk region. —

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