suck+dry
21suck someone dry — exhaust someone s physical, material, or emotional resources …
22milk/bleed/suck someone or something dry — milk/bleed/suck (someone or something) dry informal : to take or use up everything from (someone or something) He married her for her money and then bled her dry. She milked the system dry. • • • Main Entry: ↑dry …
23milk somebody dry — milk/suck sb/sth ˈdry idiom to get from sb/sth all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return • By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry. Main entry:… …
24milk something dry — milk/suck sb/sth ˈdry idiom to get from sb/sth all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return • By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry. Main entry:… …
25drain — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, ablation, abrade, abridge, absorb, absorption, abstract, abuse, achromatize, acquire, air dry, anhydrate, assimilate, assimilation, attrition, bake, bankrupt, bate, bereave, blackmail, blanch, bleach,… …
26milk — Synonyms and related words: abridge, abuse, alabaster, bed, bed down, bereave, beverage, bleed, bleed white, blood, break, bridle, broach, brush, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, chalk, cheese, chyle, colostrum, condensed milk, cream, curry,… …
27drain — [n] channel through which liquid runs off cesspool, cloaca, conduit, culvert, ditch, duct, outlet, pipe, sewer, sink, trench, watercourse; concept 501 drain [v1] remove liquid; remove supply abate, bankrupt, bleed, bleed dry*, catheterize,… …
28exhaust — [v1] tire or wear out 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*,… …
29bleed — Synonyms and related words: abridge, abuse, ache, agonize, anguish, be sorry for, bereave, bleed for, bleed white, bloody, broach, brood over, clip, commiserate, compassionate, condole with, cup, curtail, cut off, decant, denude, deplume, deprive …
30exhaust — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, absorb, assimilate, attenuate, avenue, backwash, bankrupt, beat, blackdamp, bleed, bleed white, blow, blow out, blowhole, blunt, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, broach, burden, burn out,… …
