Engross vs Exhaust - What's the difference?
engross | exhaust | Synonyms |
(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* De Quincey
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
To completely engage the attention of.
(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To amass.
* Shakespeare
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(chemistry) 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.
A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
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Short for .
(obsolete) Exhausted; used up.
Engross is a synonym of exhaust.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between engross and exhaust
is that engross is (obsolete) to amass while exhaust is (obsolete) exhausted; used up.As verbs the difference between engross and exhaust
is that engross is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of while exhaust is to draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.As a noun exhaust is
a system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.As an adjective exhaust is
(obsolete) exhausted; used up.engross
English
Verb
(es)- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
- waves engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf
Synonyms
* (to buy up the whole supply of) corner the marketCoordinate terms
* (to write out in large characters) longhandReferences
*exhaust
English
Verb
(en verb)- A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. --Motley.
Synonyms
* spend, consume * tire out, weary * See alsoNoun
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