exhausting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ex·haust·ing /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ $ -ˈzɒːs-/ ●●○ adjective TIREDmaking you feel extremely tired 使人精疲力竭的 an exhausting process 令人精疲力竭的过程 It had been an exhausting day. 那一天令人疲惫不堪。► see thesaurus at tiring
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exhausting• I had to drive nine hours without a break - it was exhausting.• I work in a controlled way, so mentally it's exhausting.• It involves a lot of unnecessary digging, it is time-consuming and exhausting.• It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly.• The homecoming procedure, even after a long and exhausting exercise, is well known.• She's just returned from another exhausting lecture tour.• It was an exhausting regime of rehabilitation.• Starting a small business can be the most physically and mentally exhausting task you've ever done.• The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with.• an exhausting tripex·haust·ing adjectiveChineseSyllable
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exhausting
ex‧haust‧ing /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ $ -ˈzɒːs-/
adjective
making you feel extremely tired:
an exhausting process
It had been an exhausting day.
▪ tiring making you feel that you want to sleep or rest: The journey was really tiring. | I’ve had such a tiring day. | It was tiring work.
▪exhausting extremely tiring: I had to drive nine hours without a break – it was exhausting. | an exhausting week of singing, acting, and dancing
▪hard very tiring and difficult – used about days, journeys etc: a hard day at work | The last part of the journey was very hard.
▪wearing /ˈweərɪŋ $ ˈwer-/ tiring because you have to use a lot of your mental energy, and often become bored – used about people, situations etc: I find her constant questions rather wearing. | Kids of that age can be very wearing. | His films always tend to have the same plots, which does get rather wearing after a while.
▪gruelling British English, grueling American English (also punishing ) very tiring physically or mentally – used when you have to keep doing something for a long time: a gruelling journey across the desert | a gruelling race | a punishing schedule | a punishing exercise regime
▪backbreaking backbreaking work is extremely tiring and needs a lot of physical effort: Clearing the land was slow backbreaking work. | Laborers were paid $2 a day for backbreaking farm work.
▪something is a killer informal used when saying that something is extremely tiring: Today was a real killer.
▪fatiguing formal making you feel very tired: Factory work was repetitive and fatiguing.
ex‧haust‧ing /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ $ -ˈzɒːs-/
adjectivemaking you feel extremely tired:
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