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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. extreme fatigue;

2. serious weakening and loss of energy;
[syn: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion]

3. the act of exhausting something entirely;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exhaustion \Ex*haus"tion\, n. [Cf. F. exhaustion.] 1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits. [1913 Webster] 3. (Math.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. [1913 Webster] Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exhaustion n 1: extreme fatigue 2: serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion] 3: the act of exhausting something entirely