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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Exhausted by

Hi Friends
what is the meaning of this sentence? specially, "exhausted"?

our obligation to be rational is exhausted by our obligation to take account of other people’s
doubts and objections to our beliefs.

thanks.

  

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Hi It means: very tired or, idiomatically, emptied out. We can use it to describe ourselves physically or we can use it idiomatically, about a person's thoughts: - I'm exhausted, I must go and lie down - You haven't persuaded me and I think your arguments are exhausted Dave

  • Hi It means: very tired or, idiomatically, emptied out.
  • We can use it to describe ourselves physically or we can use it idiomatically, about a person's thoughts: - I'm exhausted, I must go and lie down - You haven't persuaded me and I think your arguments are exhausted Dave
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Hi

It means: very tired or, idiomatically, emptied out. We can use it to describe ourselves physically or we can use it idiomatically, about a person's thoughts:

- I'm exhausted, I must go and lie down

- You haven't persuaded me and I think your arguments are exhausted

Dave

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