Capable of being used up or depleted; able to be exhausted completely.
From exhaust (Latin exhaurire, 'to draw out completely') plus the suffix -able (capable of being). The word emerged in English around the 16th-17th centuries.
The concept of exhaustable resources became critical in environmental science—fossil fuels are exhaustable, which is why we're racing toward renewable energy!
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