EXHAUST Copy link • EXHAUSTTo use quite up, exhaurire (PROP. and figuratively; e.g., strength, money, allies, affection, etc.): conficere (figuratively, to weaken one’s strength): cf., exanclare is not found in good prose. My patience is exhausted, rumpo or abrumpo patientiam (☞ not rumpitur patientia; Vid: Suet., Tib., 25; Tac., Ann., 12, 50, 3): to exhaust a subject in a speech, etc., omnia accurate exponere; nihil intactum relinquere; rem ab omni parte considerare: the whole question is completely exhausted, abunde satisfactum est huic toti quaestioni. To weary (Vid :). To be exhausted, wearied, exanimari (Caes.) et lassitudine confici. To weaken, etc., infirmare (PROP. and figuratively): enervare (to enervate, only PROP.): debilitare, attenuare, minuere, comminuere, imminuere (figuratively, to weaken, lessen): frangere (figuratively, to break, to weaken, enfeeble very much): vires alicujus consumere (Caes.). To exhaust the spirits, animum debilitare or comminuere: to exhaust the enemy, hostes frangere, hostium res accidere: a country is exhausted, alicujus terrae opes attritae sunt; through very great wars, through the expenses of princes, terra exhausta est maximis bellis, sumptu, etc.: land is exhausted, solum (ubertate nimia) effetum et defatigatum est (Col.).