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Synonyms for exhausting

The synonym for exhausting recorded in this bank is draining, in the sense "having a debilitating effect". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for exhausting

drainingadjective, in the sense "having a debilitating effect"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and exhausting carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

having a debilitating effect

An exhausting job in the hot sun.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

draining

Same sentence, swapped: An draining job in the hot sun.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where exhausting stands in the sentence above.

harsh
oppressive
weighty

Where exhausting turns up in the game

exhausting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play exhausting

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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