Solvers have encountered “Exhausting” before, and these answers represent what typically fits. Each option is based on puzzle completions that used identical or nearly identical clue phrasing.
Suggested Answers:
- TIRING
- FATIGUING
- WEARINGOUT
- WEARYING
- USING
- WEARING
- GRUELLING
- TAXING
- BRUTAL
- WEARISOME
- RUNNINGOUT
- USINGUP
- PETERING
- DRAINING
Synonyms and Definitions
TIRING
- Synonyms: bore, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, pall, play out, run down, sap, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, wearing, weary, wearying
WEARYING
- Synonyms: tiring
USING
- Synonyms: apply, employ, expend, exploitation, habituate, practice, use, utilise, utilize, victimisation, victimization
WEARING
- Synonyms: assume, bear, break, bust, don, eating away, endure, eroding, erosion, fall apart, get into, have on, hold out, put on, wear off, wear thin, wearing away
GRUELLING
- Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
TAXING
- Synonyms: assess, burdensome, onerous, task, tax
BRUTAL
- Synonyms: barbarous, beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, unrelenting, vicious
WEARISOME
- Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome
DRAINING
- Synonyms: debilitate, drain, enfeeble, run out
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- TIRING also appears as an answer in Burdensome crossword clue 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 letters.