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  • A verb meaning "tire out", as in "After the long gallop, his horse was exhausted."

  • A verb meaning "use up, consume", as in "That area's copper ore deposits are nearly exhausted".

  • In set theory, exhaustive is an attribute of rule(s) for defining the Inclusion / Exclusion of Element s of a collection of sets such that no non-exclusive elements remain which cannot definitely be included in one and only one Set .



The word comes from the Latin ''exhaustus'' meaning "drained dry, emptied", from the verb ''exhauriō''.