Word Meanings - OVERTIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tire to excess; to exhaust.

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• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• EXHAUST
  To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. See under Receiver. Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out;
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• EXHAUSTIBILITY
  Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
• EXHAUSTIBLE
  Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.
• EXHAUSTMENT
  Exhaustion; drain.
• EXHAUSTING
  Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. -- Ex*haust"ing, adv.
• EXHAUSTER
  One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.
• INEXHAUSTIBLE
  Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness,
• INEXHAUSTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being inexhaustible; abundance.
• INEXHAUSTEDLY
  Without exhaustion.