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exhausture

exhausture noun: exhaustion.

Noun

exhausture (usually uncountable, plural exhaustures)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Exhaustion.
    • Burke […] deploring the State of financial Exhausture into which we were plunged; concluded by making an ingenious and fanciful Exposition of our national Condition […]1815, Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time
    • […] as under such physical and moral exhausture, […]1816, The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., page 85

Forms of exhausture

pluralexhaustures

Origin of exhausture

From exhaust + -ure.

Questions about exhausture

What does exhausture mean?
Exhausture means exhaustion.
What part of speech is exhausture?
Exhausture is a noun.
What is the plural of exhausture?
The plural of exhausture is exhaustures.

Words near exhausture in the dictionary

  1. exhaustlessly
  2. exhaustlessness
  3. exhaustment
  4. exhaustments
  5. exhausts
  6. exhausture
  7. exhaustures
  8. exhbn
  9. exhbns
  10. exhedra
  11. exhedrae

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