1 [U] waste gases that come out of a vehicle, an engine or a machine:
car exhaust fumes / emissions
2 (also exhaust pipe) (also tailpipe especially in AmE) [C] a pipe through which exhaust gases come out:
My car needs a new exhaust.
verb [VN]
1 to make you feel very tired:
Even a short walk exhausted her. * There's no need to exhaust yourself clearing up-we'll do it.
2 to use all of sth so that there is none left:
Within three days they had exhausted their supply of food. * Don't give up until you have exhausted all the possibilities.
3 to talk about or study a subject until there is nothing else to say about it:
I think we've exhausted that particular topic.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for exhaust is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is exhaust a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, exhaust is tagged as noun.
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