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- Exhaustion - n. - The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
- Exhaustion - n. - The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
- Exhaustion - n. - An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
- Sprengel pump - - A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
- Fatigue - n. - Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
- Crookes tube - - A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
- Inanition - n. - The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
- Drain - v. t. - To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
- Reaction - n. - An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
- Weariness - n. - The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
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