穷尽

窮盡

qióngjìn

verb #28,800

Meanings

Wǒmen wúfǎ qióngjìn yǔzhòu de àomì.

We cannot exhaust the mysteries of the universe.

Tā qióngjìn yīshēng yánjiū zhège wèntí.

He devoted his entire life to studying this problem.

Yǔyán nányǐ qióngjìn tā de měilì.

Language is hard-pressed to exhaust her beauty.

usage

穷尽 often appears in negative or hypothetical contexts — 无法穷尽 (impossible to exhaust) is a common collocating phrase. It carries a literary tone.

穷 qióng

尽 jǐn