| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire or wear out |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, burn out, conk out, cripple, debilitate, disable, do in, drain, draw, enervate, enfeeble, fag, fatigue, frazzle, impoverish, overdo, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, overwork, peter out, poop, poop out, prostrate, run ragged, sap*, suck dry, tucker, use up, weaken, wear down, weary |
Antonyms: |
animate, invigorate, refresh |
| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, use up |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bleed dry, deplete, devour, dispel, disperse, dissipate, drain, draw, dry, eat, eat up, empty, expend, finish, impoverish, run out, run through, spend, squander, strain, suck dry, take last of, void, wash up, waste |
Antonyms: |
refresh, replenish |
| Main Entry: | exhausting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiring |
Synonyms: |
debilitating, depleting, draining, fatiguing, sapping, taxing, tiresome, wearing, wearying |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use wrongly |
Synonyms: |
dissipate, exhaust, misemploy, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overtax, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
Antonyms: |
benefit, care for, esteem, prize, respect, revere |
| Main Entry: | arduous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, hard to endure |
Synonyms: |
backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, no picnic, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill |
Antonyms: |
easy, facile, motivating |
| Main Entry: | backbreaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strenuous |
Synonyms: |
arduous, exhausting, grueling, hard, laborious, punishing, taxing, toilsome, wearisome |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extort |
Synonyms: |
blackmail, confiscate, deplete, drain, exhaust, extract, fleece, impoverish, leech, milk, mulct, overcharge, pauperize, put the screws to, rook, sap*, skin*, squeeze*, steal, stick*, strong-arm |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
Synonyms: |
afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
Antonyms: |
amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | clear out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty something |
Synonyms: |
clean out, dispose of, eliminate, exhaust, get rid of, remove, sort, tidy up |
Antonyms: |
fill, fill up, put |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart, break down |
Synonyms: |
belly up, bend, break, cave in, conk out, crack up, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, fall down, flag, flake out, fold, founder, give, give in, give out, give way, go to pieces, go*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield |
Antonyms: |
build, increase, rise |