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exhaustive

[ ig-zaws-tiv ]

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adjective

exhausting exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough:
He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
tending to exhaust or drain, as resources or strength:
a protracted, exhaustive siege of illness.

exhaustive

/ ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv /

First recorded in 1780–90; exhaust + -ive

“Discord” proceeds to envelop us in this exhaustive, mind-racking debate.

This is the Daily Beast's first high school list and it isn't exhaustive.

They will also focus on the exhaustive nature of the investigation, during which staffers reviewed over 16 million documents.

Consider, for example, the exhaustive coverage Chris Christie has received in recent months.

Here, now, are the results of an exhaustive listening study stretching back to 1998.

That's the crushing kind of repertoire he gives his pupils—so exhaustive and complete in every department.

Few histories give the reader the same impression of exhaustive study.

Certain books, however, have treated special divisions of the whole subject in a thorough and exhaustive manner.

This answer would be exhaustive, if it were the fact that the laity made the law for the theologians.

This is not the place in which to enter on an exhaustive inquiry as to the nature of causation.

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