exhaustion

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.

Proto-Italic *auziō

Latin hauriō

Latin exhauriō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Medieval Latin exhaustiōbor.

English exhaustion

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.

uncountable, usually The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up. We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
uncountable, usually Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy. I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
dated, uncountable, usually The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
dated, uncountable, usually The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
uncountable, usually An exhaustive procedure