a. [f. EXHAUST v. + -IBLE.] That admits of being exhausted.

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1667.  Boyle, in Phil. Trans., II. 587. A very small Receiver, exhaustible at a Suck or two.

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1779–81.  Johnson, L. P., Collins. His uncle … left him about two thousand pounds; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible.

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1848.  Mill, Pol. Econ., I. 35. Coal, metallic ores, and other useful substances…. They are not only strictly local, but exhaustible.

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