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exhausting

[ ig-zaw-sting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

producing or tending to produce fatigue, weariness, or the like:
an exhausting day; an exhausting child.

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First recorded in 1530–40; exhaust + -ing ²

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Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

Russian professional models often describe their business as "exhausting" and "frustrating," especially for a child.

Sports stars going on Dancing with the Stars who are big, butch, and energetic are talking about how exhausting it is.

Their alleged attempt to run off and join ISIS had apparently been exhausting.

He speaks of the discipline it takes to care for a baby and the overwhelming reward that comes at the end of every exhausting day.

He leaped out to see what had happened, and, after a few perplexed and exhausting moments, remembered.

Such concentration is very exhausting, and after two or three hours' practice I feel as if I should drop off the chair.

Raphael de Valentin desired her and would have sought her but for the fear of exhausting the "magic skin."

In the meantime, the patient may be constantly in the wildest motion and so add to the exhausting effect of the organic disease.

To this dangerous sleep David yielded, nevertheless, as the emotions and fatigues of the day had been very exhausting.

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