exhaustion

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exhaustion (usually uncountable; plural exhaustions)

  1. The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
    We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
  2. Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
    I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.

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