ausgepowert

Ausgepowert is a German neologism used in online discourse to describe a state in which a person, device, or system has exhausted its usable energy or capacity. The term combines the prefix aus- (“out, depleted”) with a borrowed form of the English verb power, yielding an adjective used to denote energy depletion. In practice, it is common to encounter spellings such as ausgepowert or ausge-powert, with informal attribution to a past-tense or participle-like usage.

The word is used across different contexts. For people, it describes mental or physical exhaustion after effort or stress, as in a long workday or demanding task. For technologies, it refers to devices that have run out of charge or have reached functional limits under heavy use. In organizational or policy discussions, ausgepowert can describe systems or processes that have consumed most of their available resources, necessitating recharge, reset, or intervention.

Origin and reception are informal; ausgepowert appears primarily in German-language blogs, forums, and social media since the 2010s. It is not part of standard dictionaries, and its precise meaning can vary with context. The term is often used metaphorically to express fatigue linked to technology, digital culture, or energy management, rather than to describe an official technical state.

See also: energy depletion, battery life, digital well-being, burnout. Examples include: “Mein Smartphone ist ausgepowert” and “Ich bin völlig ausgepowert nach dem Meeting.”