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exhaust

/ɪɡˈzɔːst/ig-ZAWST
/ɪɡˈzɔst/ig-ZAWST

Meaningto drain out

Common meaning: to drain out

Other meanings: to tire out

‘out’ + ‘to draw up liquid’ → exhaust

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GHU‘pour’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 121, p. 734 · scan
  2. Latinhauriō, hausī, haustum‘to draw up liquid’
  3. Englishexhaust‘to drain out’ · today

ex- also in: exitexactexaltexertexpel

haust also in: exhaustion

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin hauriō ‘to draw up liquid; to drain’.

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