exhaust+tire+out

  • 21exhaust — [ɪg zɔ:st, ɛg ] verb 1》 [often as adjective exhausted or exhausting] tire out completely. 2》 use up (resources or reserves) completely.     ↘explore (a subject) thoroughly. 3》 expel (gas or steam) from an engine or other machine. noun waste gases …

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  • 22exhaust — v. & n. v.tr. 1 consume or use up the whole of. 2 (often as exhausted adj. or exhausting adj.) use up the strength or resources of; tire out. 3 study or expound on (a subject) completely. 4 (often foll. by of) empty (a vessel etc.) of its… …

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  • 23fag someone out — EXHAUST, tire (out), wear out, fatigue, overtire, weary; informal do in, wipe out, knock out, shatter; Brit. informal knacker; N. Amer …

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  • 24exhaust — verb 1) the effort had exhausted him Syn: tire out, wear out, overtire, fatigue, weary, drain; informal take it out of one, shatter; Brit.; informal knacker; N.Amer.; informal poop, tucker out 2) the country has ex …

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  • 25tire — I. v. a. 1. Fatigue, weary, jade, fag, exhaust, knock up, tire out. 2. Irk, bore, weary, fatigue. II. v. n. Be fatigued, become weary, grow weary …

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  • 26tire — vb Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag, tucker can all mean to make or in some cases to become disinclined or unable to continue because of loss of strength or endurance. Tire is the general and ordinary word and usually implies the draining …

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  • 27exhaust — ex·haust vt: to use up or consume entirely: as a: to try all of (available remedies) the applicant has exhaust ed the remedies available in the court of the State U.S. Code b: to bring (a claim) through all available prior levels of review each… …

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  • 28exhaust — [v1] tire or wear out bankrupt, burn out*, conk out*, cripple, debilitate, disable, do in*, drain, draw, enervate, enfeeble, fag, fatigue, frazzle, impoverish, overdo, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, overwork, peter out*, poop*,… …

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  • 29tire — [v] exhaust, weary annoy, bore, burn out*, bush*, collapse, crawl, debilitate, deject, depress, disgust, dishearten, dispirit, displease, distress, drain, droop, drop, enervate, ennui, exasperate, fag, fail, faint, fatigue, flag, fold, give out,… …

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  • 30Tire — Tire, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf.… …

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