Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Exhausted, depleted, completely drained: Describes a state of being completely used up, worn out, or having nothing left, often referring to resources, strength, energy, or vitality. It implies reaching an extreme point of depletion or decline.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nền kinh tế đã hoàn toàn kiệt quệ sau cuộc khủng hoảng. (The economy was completely exhausted after the crisis.)
  • Sau chặng đua dài, các vận động viên cảm thấy kiệt quệ sức lực. (After the long race, the athletes felt their strength was completely depleted.)
  • Những năm tháng làm việc quá sức đã khiến anh ấy kiệt quệ. (The years of overwork have left him utterly exhausted.)

Advanced Usage

• "kiệt quệ tinh thần": mentally exhausted, spiritually depleted.
  • Những tin tức tiêu cực liên tục khiến cô ấy kiệt quệ tinh thần. (The continuous negative news left her mentally exhausted.)
• "kiệt quệ nguồn lực": resource depletion.
  • Cuộc chiến kéo dài dẫn đến kiệt quệ nguồn lực của cả hai bên. (The prolonged war led to the depletion of resources for both sides.)

Variants and Related Words

• Kiệt (adj/verb): To be exhausted, to run out. Often used in compounds.
  • kiệt sức (exhausted, out of strength)
  • cạn kiệt (to be depleted, to run dry - e.g., resources)
• Quỵ (verb): To collapse, to break down (from exhaustion). While not a variant, it shares a similar context of extreme depletion leading to failure.
  • quỵ sức (to collapse from exhaustion)

Synonyms

• Cạn kiệt: depleted, run dry (often for non-living things like resources).
• Suy kiệt: weakened and exhausted, debilitated (often for health or vitality).
• Mệt lử / mệt nhoài: extremely tired, worn out (more colloquial, often for physical tiredness).
• Rệu rã: worn-out, dilapidated (can describe physical state or morale).

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Kiệt quệ tài chính: financially exhausted/bankrupt.
  • Công ty nhỏ đó đã kiệt quệ tài chính và phải đóng cửa. (That small company was financially exhausted and had to close.)
• Kiệt quệ sinh lực: vitality/ life force is depleted.
  • Căn bệnh hiểm nghèo làm ông ấy kiệt quệ sinh lực. (The serious illness depleted his vitality.)

Related Idioms

• "Kiệt sức, kiệt lực": An idiom emphasizing total physical exhaustion.
  • Làm việc ba ca liên tục, anh ấy đã kiệt sức, kiệt lực. (Working three consecutive shifts, he was completely worn out and exhausted.)
• "Đến hồi kiệt quệ": To reach the point of exhaustion/depletion.
  • Sự chống đỡ của phe phòng thủ đã đến hồi kiệt quệ. (The resistance of the defending side had reached the point of exhaustion.)

adj

1. exhausted