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| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire or wear out |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, burn out*, cripple, debilitate, disable, do in*, drain, draw, enervate, enfeeble, fatigue, frazzle, impoverish, overdo, overwork, peter out*, prostrate, sap*, weaken, wear down, weary, conk out*, fag, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, poop, poop out*, run ragged, suck dry, tucker*, use up |
| Antonyms: | animate, invigorate, refresh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, use up |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, deplete, devour, dispel, disperse, dissipate, drain, draw, dry, eat, eat up*, empty, expend, finish, impoverish, run out, run through, spend, squander, strain, void, waste, bleed dry, suck dry, take last of, wash up |
| Antonyms: | refresh, replenish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart, break down |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, crack up*, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, flag, fold, founder, give, give in, go*, go to pieces*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield, belly up, cave in, conk out*, fall down, flake out, give out, give way |
| Antonyms: | build, increase, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | debilitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, undermine, weaken, wear out, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | devour |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swallow, consume |
| Synonyms: | absorb, annihilate, appreciate, bolt, cram*, delight in, destroy, dispatch, eat, enjoy, exhaust, feed on, go through, gobble, gorge*, gulp, guzzle, imbibe, ingest, inhale, pig out*, polish off*, ravage, relish, spend, stuff, take, take in, waste, wipe out, wolf*, be engrossed by, be preoccupied, bolt down, chow down, do compulsively, do voraciously, drink in, feast on, gloat over, hoover, partake of, rejoice in, revel in, scarf down, use up, wolf down |
| Antonyms: | abstain, pick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render inoperative; cripple |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring*, handicap, harm, hock*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh*, knock out*, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, prostrate, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, spoil, total*, undermine, unfit, weaken, wreck, disenable, hogtie*, immobilize, pinion, put out of action, render incapable, shoot down*, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, enable, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take moisture out of |
| Synonyms: | bake, blot, concentrate, condense, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, empty, evaporate, exhaust, harden, kiln, mummify, parch, scorch, sear, shrivel, sponge, stale, swab, wilt, wipe, wither, anhydrate, dehumidify, exsiccate, freeze-dry, soak up, torrefy, towel, wizen |
| Antonyms: | dampen, soak, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove contents |
| Synonyms: | clear, consume, decant, deplete, discharge, disgorge, drain, drink, dump, ebb, eject, escape, evacuate, exhaust, expel, gut, leak, leave, purge, release, run out, tap, unburden, unload, vacate, void, flow out, make void, pour out, rush out, use up |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary, jade |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy') innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, strengthen, liven |
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker |
| Antonyms: | energize, refresh, envigorate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frazzle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wear out |
| Synonyms: | exhaust, fray, knock out, prostrate, rip, shred, tear, tire, wear, poop, tucker* |
| Antonyms: | maintain, preserve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fumes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pollution, gas in air |
| Synonyms: | effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, haze, miasma, reek, smog, smoke, stench, vapor |
| Main Entry: | harass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | badger |
| Synonyms: | annoy, attack, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, bother, bug*, bullyrag*, burn*, despoil, devil*, distress, disturb, eat*, exasperate, exhaust, fatigue, foray, get to*, give a bad time, give a hard time, gnaw*, harry, hassle, heckle, hound*, intimidate, irk, irritate, jerk around, macerate, maraud, noodge, pain*, perplex, persecute, pester, plague, raid, rattle one's cage, ride, strain, stress, tease, tire, torment, trouble, try, vex, weary, work on, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, facilitate, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | milk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tap; exploit |
| Synonyms: | bleed, drain, elicit, empty, evince, evoke, exhaust, express, extort, extract, fleece, press, pump, siphon, suck, use, wring, draw off, impose on, let out, take advantage, take out |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save |
| Main Entry: | ruin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devastate, destroy |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggar, botch, break, bring down, bust, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, desecrate, despoil, devour, disfigure, do in*, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, total, wipe out*, wrack, wreck, bring to ruin, clean out, depredate, dilapidate, lay waste, make a mess of, pauperize, spoilate, use up, wreak havoc on |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, create, develop, grow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | run out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, be exhausted |
| Synonyms: | cease, close, depart, dissipate, end, exhaust, expire, finish, go, lose, peter out*, stop, terminate, tire, waste, weaken, wear out, be cleaned out, be out of, come to a close, dry up, give out, have no more, have none left, waste away |
| Antonyms: | get, have, succeed, supply |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | run through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up; waste |
| Synonyms: | blow, consume, dissipate, exhaust, expend, finish, lose, spend, squander, throw away, fritter away, wash up |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save |
| Main Entry: | sap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | squeeze out; weaken |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, bleed, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, destroy, devitalize, disable, drain, enervate, enfeeble, erode, exhaust, impair, prostrate, rob, ruin, subvert, undermine, vitiate, wear down, wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, help, increase, strengthen, put in |
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