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exhaust

/ig-zawst/US // ɪgˈzɔst //UK // (ɪɡˈzɔːst) //

废气,排气,排气管,排风

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
    • : to use up or consume completely; expend the whole of: He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation.
    • : to draw out all that is essential in; treat or study thoroughly.
    • : to empty by drawing out the contents: to exhaust a tank of fuel oil.
    • : to create a vacuum in.
    • : to draw out or drain off completely.
    • : to deprive wholly of useful or essential properties, possessions, resources, etc.
    • : Chemistry, Pharmacology. to deprive of ingredients by the use of solvents, as a drug.
    • : to destroy the fertility of, as by intensive cultivation.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to pass out or escape, as spent steam from the cylinder of an engine.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Machinery.

    • : the escape of steam or gases from the cylinder of an engine.
    • : the steam or gases ejected.
    • : Also called exhaust system. the parts of an engine through which the exhaust is ejected.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtire or wear out
Forms: exhausted, exhausting
verbconsume, use up
Forms: exhausted, exhausting

Examples

  • Still, a big mistake or a lot of bad luck could put a hole in the exhaust, damage the transfer case, or snag an important cable.

  • Battery-powered options are also available, and these don’t emit dangerous exhaust fumes.

  • You could find them when you are grilling meats, you could find them out of the exhaust of a car, you could find them from smoke from the wildfires in California, you could find them in charcoal that’s left behind.

  • Benzene, a pollutant from automobile exhaust, is carcinogenic and linked to childhood and adult leukemia and probably lymphoma.

  • The only source of outside air was an exhaust fan in a bathroom.

  • Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

  • But they have a lot more tools now, a lot more information, a lot more digital exhaust that we all have.

  • He begins to flail and exhaust himself before submerging for good.

  • So in addition to being able to demoralize and exhaust you, the book tour can kill you.

  • You might exhaust yourself trying to please them both which is more work than you realize.

  • A very slight movement of the armature disc J, therefore, suffices to open to the full extent two long exhaust passages.

  • The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.

  • The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.

  • We occupy too wide an extent of country: we exhaust our resources without profit and without necessity: we cling to dreams.

  • Then the exhaust from each port must be measured and thrusts equalized, where needed, by adjustment of great valves.