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Latin
Etymology
From ex- + hauriō (“draw up or out; consume, exhaust”).
Pronunciation
Verb
exhauriō (present infinitive exhaurīre, perfect active exhausī, supine exhaustum); fourth conjugation
- (of liquids) to draw out, empty by drawing, deplete
- Synonyms: dēpleō, dēfundō
- Antonyms: impleō, expleō, repleō, cumulō, compleō, stīpō
- (of non-liquids) to exhaust, drain off, take out, use up, deplete, empty out, make empty
- Synonyms: hauriō, absūmō, cōnsūmō, conterō, terō, dēterō, abūtor, atterō, ēnecō, adedō, peragō, accīdō, ūtor
- (figuratively) to take away, remove
- Synonyms: tollō, āmoveō, auferō, āvertō, ēripiō, eximō, adimō, abdūcō
- (figuratively) to exhaust, carry through, bring to an end
- to terminate, fulfill, accomplish
- Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, dēfungor, absolvō, conclūdō, condō, agō, expleō, patrō, efficiō, cumulō, impleō, peragō, exsequor, fungor, perpetrō, gerō, nāvō, trānsigō, prōflīgō, persolvō, claudō, inclūdō, perferō
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References
- “exhaurio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exhaurio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exhaurio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- exhaurio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
- to empty a cup at a draught: exhaurire poculum