The verb is one of the most important parts of speech in any language, it expresses a dynamic feature of an object, that is, it denotes an action. The more verbs you know, the better you know the language, the richer your vocabulary. This article will describe in detail the verb "to exhaust": let's dwell on its meaning and morphological features, select synonyms and specify which syllable is stressed.
Meaning of the word "exhaust"
What pictures pop up before our eyes when we hear or say the word "exhaust"?
Someone scoops, scoops something to the very bottom and finally scoops out so that nothing remains.
To exhaust is:
- Use something completely.
- Finish a topic.
- Solve or close any issue.
Let's look at some illustrative examples of the use of this verb:
- The incident is completely over, shake hands.
- Unfortunately, in just four months we ran out of love beforebottom.
- Dear Margarita, you have written a voluminous work on many pages, but, nevertheless, you haven’t exhausted the topic, so I can’t give you a five.
- You know, my dear, you have reached my limit of trust.
- We no longer need to meet with you, our relationship has long been exhausted.
- Exhaust is a verb.
- Like all speakers who make it their ultimate goal to exhaust a topic, he has exhausted the audience's patience.
- The body has exhausted its last strength.
- Opponents ran out of arguments, and the argument ended in nothing.
- Is it possible to exhaust absolutely all fresh water reserves on our planet?
Morphological characteristics, conjugation
"To exhaust" is a transitive perfective verb. Verbs that end in "-at" in their initial form are in the first conjugation.
Fade out: accent
The verb "to exhaust" consists of nine letters and eight sounds, three of which are vowels and five are consonants. Since there are three vowels, the word can be divided into three syllables: is-cher-pat.
In everyday speech, the verb "to exhaust" can be heard with an accent on either the second syllable or the third. What's the right way?
In the modern literary Russian language, it is generally accepted that in the word "exhaust" and all its word forms, the stress falls on the second syllable. But the stress on the third syllable is also allowed, although this norm is outdated.
Single-root words
In many cognate words, the stress is alsofalls on the letter "e". For example, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scooped, cupbearer, etc.
Synonyms for the verb "to exhaust"
Synonyms make vocabulary richer, speech more diverse and beautiful.
To exhaust is:
- Finish, end: "Power is over".
- Use: "Of course we didn't use all the opportunities, but the desire to sell was gone."
- Stop: "Argument ended."
- Use up: "Mikhail used all his homework, but the members of the examination committee did not calm down and continued to bombard him with additional questions."
- Deplete: "Fresh water is depleted."
Of course, these words do not convey the meaning of the verb "exhaust" with one hundred percent accuracy.
Antonyms
Words with opposite meanings are called antonyms.
Antonyms for the verb "exhaust": increase, multiply, add, multiply.
Compatibility with nouns
What can be exhausted? Incident, topic, question, conflict, problem, or inventory. An agenda, means, issue, opportunity, force, argument, or argument. Evidence, love, respect, feelings, relationships and trust.
Anagrams
Few people know that there is such a word game in which the letters of one word must be used to make others. If we take, for example, the word "exhaust", then from it you can make the following set of words:
- comb, slash, sickle, network,sleep;
- bake, sing, chip, honor, hour, chat;
- rice, speech, army, draw, bake;
- pass, par, pat, party, ace, dash, dash, type.
Quotes with the verb "exhaust"
All the subtleties of the meaning and use of any word are more pronounced in the context of sentences.
Let's turn to famous people for help:
To reach the bottom of wisdom, one must exhaust all human stupidity.(Berne)
One should never exhaust a subject until there is nothing left for the reader; it's not about making him read, it's about making him think. (Montesquieu)
That's what freedom is all about, to exhaust your calling. (Ibsen)
Trying to exhaust all the details is tiring and insulting to a sensitive person. (Rosa Luxembourg)
It is impossible to exhaust this subject: it seems that a lot has been said, but no, even more has not been said. (Boccaccio)
It is worth noting that the word "exhaust" was actively used in dialogues for several decades (or even years ago). Today, this happens less and less. In particular, it is practically absent in youth slang. It is much easier for the younger generation to use the words that they hear, and not those that are mentioned mainly on the pages of books. Let it be sad to admit it, but if the situation does not change, then the word "exhaust" will become another archaism.
