To deplete entirely or render completely powerless by great effort, fatigue, or consumption.
After climbing for hours, the hikers felt completely exhaust. Their legs burned, and their minds were foggy, unable to think of anything but the long way down. They had given every bit of their strength.
After ten days of silent vigil, the lone watchman felt his energy exhaust. He'd seen no sign, heard no whisper. His body trembled, his mind a dull ache. The hope that had fueled him for so long had finally run out, leaving him utterly spent and immobile on the cold stone floor.
The ancient, crumbling automaton, its gears long seized, made one final, desperate lurch. It had pushed every ounce of its remaining power into that singular movement, and now, its motive force was gone. It lay still, utterly spent, its internal mechanisms having used themselves up.
After trying to teach my cat to play poker, I was utterly exhaust. She just stared blankly, then licked a paw. My brain felt like a deflated balloon, and my energy was gone. I couldn't even muster the strength to open a can of tuna.
Barnaby the badger tried to juggle five rubber chickens while doing the splits. He huffed and puffed, his little badger legs trembling. By the third chicken, he started to sweat. He couldn't even wiggle his nose anymore; the effort managed to exhaust him completely, leaving him flat as a pancake.
After the marathon, her legs felt like lead. Every step was a monumental effort, and the sheer exertion threatened to exhaust her completely, leaving her utterly spent and unable to move.
After three days without sleep, scrambling to repair the bio-luminescent algae farms before the spore bloom, Elara felt utterly exhaust. Each breath was a struggle, her muscles screaming from the relentless manual filtration, leaving her too weak to even stand.
The relic hunter spent days meticulously excavating the collapsed chamber, their every movement a testament to desperate hope. By the third night, the constant digging and meager rations had begun to exhaust their physical reserves, leaving them too weak to even lift their tools.
After a particularly brutal game of ultimate frisbee, the couch became my personal nirvana. My legs felt like overcooked spaghetti, and my brain could barely form coherent thoughts. I had truly managed to exhaust every ounce of energy I possessed, leaving me utterly powerless to even reach for the remote.
After attempting to fold a fitted sheet for the tenth time, Brenda felt her will to live completely exhaust. She slumped onto the couch, a defeated heap of laundry-induced despair, questioning all her life choices that led to this moment of ultimate sheet-folding failure.
After hours of struggling against the storm, the rescue team was utterly exhaust. They had pushed their bodies to the very brink, their spirits depleted, leaving them with no strength left to continue the search.
After days of meticulously calibrating the bioluminescent algae strain for the deep-sea exploration sub, the lead xenobotanist felt utterly spent. The sheer concentration required to fine-tune their atmospheric needs and ensure they wouldn't exhaust their limited nutrient paste reserves left him weak and barely able to stand.
The lone surveyor stumbled, his canteen dry, his boots worn to threads. Each gust of wind, a mocking reminder of his futile trek across the alkali flats. His muscles screamed; the unrelenting sun and lack of water had begun to exhaust his very being.
After a valiant, yet ultimately futile, attempt to assemble the IKEA furniture with only the cryptic pictograms as guidance, Bartholomew felt utterly exhaust. His spirit, once brimming with ambitious optimism, was now as depleted as his social battery after one too many family reunions.
After attempting to teach his goldfish, Bartholomew, the complexities of quantum mechanics, Reginald found his mental faculties utterly exhaust. Bartholomew, meanwhile, seemed blissfully unfazed, occasionally blowing a contemplative bubble as if pondering Schrödinger's feline predicament.
After the marathon, my legs felt like lead. Each subsequent step was a monumental struggle, a testament to how the grueling exertion had managed to exhaust every last ounce of my physical reserves, leaving me utterly debilitated and immobile.
The prolonged siege of the asteroid mining colony had begun to exhaust the garrison's meager munitions. Each defensive volley, a desperate expenditure, left them more vulnerable to the encroaching alien swarm. Their reserves were all but spent, their strength flagg'd, facing an unremitting adversary.
After meticulously recalibrating the flux capacitor for the seventeenth time, the engineer found himself utterly depleted. His muscles ached, his focus wavered, and the sheer mental exertion began to exhaust him. He slumped against the console, the glowing chronometer a taunting testament to his now dwindling reserves.
After an arduous peregrination through the labyrinthine sock drawer, the lone argyle specimen, valiantly seeking its mate, began to exhaust its meager reserves of hope. Its elastic had long since surrendered, its woven brethren lay scattered in ignominious disarray, leaving it utterly bereft of its former perky brio.
After wrestling a particularly recalcitrant velociraptor into its bespoke, diamond-encrusted sarcophagus, Barnaby felt utterly exhaust. His every sinew, a testament to his Herculean efforts, vibrated with an insufferable lassitude, rendering him as limber as petrified marmalade.
Basic — Common words most learners already know.