Exhausting

Definitions: Exhausting

Exhausting

Adjective

1. Having a debilitating effect; "a killing job in the hot sun".

2. Producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing".

Date "exhausting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Exhausting

Synonyms: draining (adj), killing (adj), tiring (adj), wearing (adj), wearying (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Exhausting! It took the class 40 minutes to locate Canada on a map. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Strength is exhausting. (Nicholas Nickleby; writing credit: Douglas McGrath) It's exhausting being me. (Daylight; writing credit: Leslie Bohem) It's exhausting. (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) Time travel How exhausting! (Chrono Trigger; writing credit: Yuji Horii; Masato Kato)
Clever	I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was exhausting. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy (reference) Exhausting Our Options: Fuel Efficient Cars and the Environment (reference) Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No 130) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Underway opposite Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas, on 31 December 1863. Note wash from Fawn's stern wheel, and steam exhausting alongside her stern.Credit: NAVY.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Quentin Crisp	Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Caring for a person with HD at home can be exhausting, but part-time assistance with household chores or physical care of the individual can ease this burden. (references)
Economic History	Djibouti	The constant growth of the population is dangerously exhausting water reserves. (references)
	Nicaragua	Workers may freely exercise their right to strike, but only after exhausting other methods of dispute resolution, including mediation by the Ministry of Labor. (references)
Worker Rights	Zambia	An employee who believes that he has been penalized for union activities may, after exhausting any existing administrative channels for relief, file a complaint with the IRC. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Exhausting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.05% of the time. "Exhausting" is used about 167 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	76.05%	127	28,395
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	23.95%	40	54,274
Total	100.00%	167	N/A

Expressions using "exhausting": exhausting plate ♦ exhausting tiring wearing wearying ♦ exhausting ventilation. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "exhausting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rraskapitës (grueling, killing), lodhës (fabian, fatiguing, tiring, wearing). (various references)

Arabic		‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), ‏مضن (exhausted), ‏مجهد (arduous, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, overwrought, strenuous, tiring, toilsome, wearing), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		уморителен (exacting, fatiguing, killing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, weary, wearying), изтощителен (depletive, depletory, exhaustive, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, killing, wearing). (various references)

Chinese		辛苦 (hard, with much toil), �"�尽 (Exhausted). (various references)

Czech		vyèerpávající (backbreaking, enervating, exhaustible, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, killing, nerve racking). (various references)

Danish		udtømmelsesplateau (exhausting plate), udblæsningsventilation (exhaust ventilation, exhausting ventilation), skylleperiode (exhausting period, scavenging period). (various references)

Dutch		spoelingsfase (exhausting period, scavenging period), plaat in de uitputtingssectie van een distillatiekolom (exhausting plate), afzuiginstallatie (exhauster, exhausting device), afzuigapparaat (exhauster, exhausting device). (various references)

Finnish		väsyttävä (fatiguing, tiresome, tiring), kuluttava (erosive). (various references)

French		exténuant (extenuating), fatigant, épuisant. (various references)

German		erschöpfend (back breaking, backbreaking, depletive, exhaustive, exhaustively), aufreibend (abrasive, attritional, stressful, tiresome, trying, unsettling, wearing). (various references)

Greek		περίοδος εξαγωγής (exhausting period, scavenging period), περίοδος απόπλυσης (exhausting period, scavenging period), δίσκος εξαντλήσεως (exhausting plate). (various references)

Hebrew		מתיש (grueling, gruelling, wasting), מכל�" כוחות. (various references)

Hungarian		elcsigázó, fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, gruelling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, uphill, warm, weariful, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Italian		estenuante (gruelling, wearing), spossante, massacrante (killing), che sfinisce, che esaurisce. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		劇職 (exhausting work), 劇務 (exhausting work, hard work, severe duty), 激務 (exhausting work, hard work, severe duty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'きしょく (busy job, exhausting work), �'きむ (exhausting work, hard work, severe duty). (various references)

Korean		소진. (various references)

Manx		jeeigeyragh. (various references)

Pig Latin		exhaustingay

Portuguese		exaustivo (exhaustive, weary), exaurível. (various references)

Romanian		extenuant (exacting, overwrought), vlãguitor, ostenitor, istovitor (backbreaking, consumptive, exhaustive, fagging, gruelling, killing, tiresome), anevoios (arduous, difficult, hard, tough, troublesome). (various references)

Russian		утомительный (fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary, wearying), изнурительный (all out, back-breaking, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, tiring, wasting, wearisome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zamoran (punishing, tiresome, tiring, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome), iscrpljujući (exhaustible). (various references)

Spanish		agotador (drainer, exhauster, false bottom, fatiguing, foredrainer, grueling, gruelling, gruesome, hard, juice separator, killing, punishing, strenuous, taxing). (various references)

Swedish		tröttande (exhaustive, tiring), ansträngande (grueling, gruelling, hard, strenuous, trying). (various references)

Turkish		zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exacting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort), tüketme (consuming, demolition, depletion, expenditure), boşaltan. (various references)

Ukranian		стомливий (fatiguing, irksome, laborious, languorous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing, weary). (various references)

Vietnamese		l� m mệt lử (gruelling), l� m kiệt sức (down, fatiguing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Exhausting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exhausti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exhausting" (pronounced igzô"sting)
5	-ô" s t i ng	costing, defrosting, frosting.
4	-s t i ng	accosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, cresting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting.
3	-t i ng	abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-s-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: gahnites, sauteing, unitages.
	-3 letters: anguish, antisex, augites, aunties, easting, eatings, exhaust, gahnite, guineas, gunites, hasting, heating, ingates, ingesta, naughts, nighest, seating, sextain, sheitan, shuting, sinuate, stengah, sthenia, teasing, tushing, unitage, unsight.
	-4 letters: ageist, agents, aguish, ashing, aughts, augite, auntie, auxins, axites, easing, eating, eights, gainst, geisha, genius, ghauts, giants, guinea, gunite, haeing, hasten.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-n-s-t-u-x"
	+4 letters: extinguishable.
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