Antonyms for exhaust

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ig-zawst

Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzɔst

Definition of exhaust

Origin : 1530s, "to draw off or out, to use up completely," from Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurire "draw off, take away, use up," from ex- "off" (see ex-) + haurire "to draw up" (as water), from PIE *aus- "to draw water." Of resources, etc., from 1630s. Related: Exhausted; exhausting.

verb tire or wear out
verb consume, use up

Example sentences :

For example, there is neither an intake or exhaust manifold on the motor.
Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

Their historians said that toil did not wear out his body or exhaust his energy.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Thad opened the exhaust valve, let the air hiss from the chamber of the lock.
Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson

Is there a single spot which the eye, by any peering or prying, can fathom or exhaust?
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

You'll get a hernia of your exhaust pipe if you stay so tense.
Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison

The holes G which are bored around the cylinder are the exhaust ports.
Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates

One of these holes is the steam inlet and the other the exhaust.
Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates

Our subject, however, is one which we must be content not to exhaust.
Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller

Soot on the exhaust stacks proved that the motors had been tried, at least.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various

He was reluctant to exhaust a cartridge unless it was an absolute necessity.
Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby

Synonyms for exhaust

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