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Huevos, So am I correct to assume that your classification of “exhausted” is adjectival in nature? Perhaps, this is the difference between how you and I see it. For pure fact finding interest, I have done some more investigative research: Bear in mind, my sentence was “I am completely exhausted...

"Retire", when it is used to describe persons, it is, in its origin, an intransitive verb to mean "draw (oneself) away from the contact with other people", although it has been used as a transitive verb since ME days in the case it is used to talk about things. It is only in 18th century people...