English-Dutch translations for exhaustion

• uitputting
  Daarin schuilt de motivatie voor de regel van uitputting in de Europese Unie. That is the reason behind exhaustion in the European Union.
  De uitputting is evenwel een geheel andere en op zichzelf staande kwestie. A completely different, separate issue is, however, that of exhaustion.
  In dit specifieke geval zorgde internationale uitputting dus niet voor lagere prijzen dan communautaire uitputting, integendeel zelfs. So, in that specific case, international exhaustion did not produce prices any lower than European exhaustion - quite the contrary.

Definition of exhaustion

• The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up
• Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy
• The removal of an active medicinal constituent from plant material
• An exhaustive procedure

Examples

• We worked the mine to exhaustion, theres nothing left to extract
• I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away

Related words

• exhausting
• exhaustive
• exhaustively
• inexhaustible
• exhaustible
• exhaustiveness
• inexhaustibly
• exhaustingly
• exhaustivity