Preposition: of

• reserve: On exhaustion of the reserves, workings moved to the present site at Little Paxton.

• resource: The rehearsal process demanded the exhaustion of the resources of selfhood.

• right: Hence the judicial creativity of the doctrine of exhaustion of rights.

• supply: Many were not coming back as scheduled, due to the exhaustion of the prime supply.

• soil: Farmers rotated their crops to avoid the exhaustion of the soil.

Converse of object

• suffer: If you have been involved as a helper and are suffering exhaustion.

• combat: Combat the exhaustion & disruption with a full aromatherapy body treatment to regulate sleep & energy patterns & restore natural vitality.

• heat: Symptoms of insufficient salt range from muscular cramps to heat exhaustion.

• near: Mr Blair knows that this appeal is nearing exhaustion, which is why this will be his last election.

• avoid: Farmers rotated their crops to avoid the exhaustion of the soil.

• cause: Also viral fragments causing exhaustion now out of cells.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: We never were issued with a blanket but just slept in what we stood in, in sheer exhaustion.

• utter: The main symptom of ME is utter exhaustion to the point of collapse which is not relieved by sleep.

• nervous: Men are being evacuated in considerable numbers in a state of nervous exhaustion.

• emotional: The feeling of muscular and emotional exhaustion does not even bear thinking about.

• extreme: A smart-ass student pipes up: " What about extreme sexual exhaustion, sir?

• physical: A longer battle involving greater numbers on each side would soon degrade purely due to the physical exhaustion of all involved.

Noun used with modifier

• heat: She died from apparent heat exhaustion in the same heat wave.

• soil: In some locations, like the site at South Hornchurch, field systems were abandoned possibly due to soil exhaustion.

• memory: See an earlier problem for how to set the $ VERBOSITY variable to help locate the bad code leading to this memory exhaustion.