sheer exhaustion

collocation in English

meaningsofsheerandexhaustion

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sheer
adjective
uk
/ʃɪər/us
/ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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exhaustion
noun[U]
uk
/ɪɡˈzɔːs.tʃən/us
/ɪɡˈzɑː.tʃən/
the state of being ...
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(Definition ofsheerandexhaustionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Eventually, it seems thatsheerexhaustioncontributed to the papacy's decision to back down, but even here the peace that was forged was not straightforward.
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I need not describe the emotional, financial and physical burden endured by carers, or the loneliness, frustration andsheerexhaustioninvolved.
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But supposing you compel the men to go back to work you can only do so bysheerexhaustion.
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We learned that moving people into camps was one reason for the increase in deaths through disease and throughsheerexhaustion.
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They also know that any idealogical crusade to carry out the mandate will be blunted by failure, electoral unpopularity andsheerexhaustion.
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It is very largely because of thesheerexhaustionof the drivers that many of these accidents occur.
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The departure of good landlords from the private sector out ofsheerexhaustionwith the problems does not augur well for the future.
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More than a dozen marginal pits are being closed this year, some throughsheerexhaustionand some because production costs far outweigh any possible price return.
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First and foremost, there is the problem of land—thesheerexhaustionof fresh land, particularly in the big cities, where the shortage is especially felt.
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At one stage it looked as if those two countries were so bitterly irreconcilable that nothing exceptsheerexhaustionand mutual destruction would bring the conflict to an end.
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He forgot himself insheerexhaustionand fainted away.
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The survivors of the retreat were so weakened that thousands of them died fromsheerexhaustionin the weeks after their rescue.
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The survivors were so weakened that thousands of them died fromsheerexhaustionin the weeks after their rescue.
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Normally we slept throughsheerexhaustion.
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Olds demonstrated that the lack of satiation associated with laboratory rewards allows animals to self-stimulation tosheerexhaustionand that satiation is dependent on the location of the electrical stimulation.
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