- present participle of exhaust.
exhausting
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"It's great. Exhausting and not have a decent nights sleep. I knew it would be hard but this is something else," he replied.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
Exhausting as it was to make the movie, catharsis was its reward.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
"It is probably banking on exhaustion. Exhausting our people, our anti-aircraft defences, our energy."
From Reuters • Jan. 2, 2023
In "The View Was Exhausting," that puzzle piece click! comes in fits and gasps, in no small part due to the tension between the two protagonists' identity.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2022
In the dread ocean, undulating wide, Beneath the radiant line that girts the globe, The circling Typhon, whirl'd from point to point, Exhausting all the rage of all the sky, And dire Ecnephia reign.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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