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Quote:Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.[Theodore Roosevelt]



Definitions of: exhaust

Definition: To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

Definition: To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

Definition: To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.

Definition: To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

Definition: To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

Definition: The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

Definition: The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

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