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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause blood to flow |
| Synonyms: | drain, exude, gush, hemorrhage, leech, ooze, open vein, phlebotomize, run, seep, shed, spurt, trickle, weep |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, be in pain, feel for, pity, suffer, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
| Synonyms: | afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | blackmail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intimidating for money |
| Synonyms: | badger, bleed, coerce, compel, demand, exact, extort, force, hold to ransom, milk, put the shake on, ransom, shake down, shake*, squeeze*, threaten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agonize over |
| Synonyms: | be in brown study, bleed, chafe inwardly, consider, daydream, deliberate, despond, dream, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, fret, gloom, grieve, lament, languish, meditate, mope, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, ruminate, sigh, speculate, stew over, sulk, sweat out, sweat over, think about, think upon, worry |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, exhaust supply |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bleed, decrease, dig into, diminish, drain, draw, dry up, empty, evacuate, expend, finish, impoverish, lessen, milk, reduce, sap, spend, squander, suck dry, undermine, use up, wash up, waste, weaken |
| Antonyms: | add, augment, expand, fill, give, increase |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove liquid; remove supply |
| Synonyms: | abate, bankrupt, bleed, bleed dry, catheterize, consume, debilitate, decrease, deplete, devitalize, diminish, dissipate, divert, draft, draw off, drink up, dry, empty, evacuate, exhaust, expend, fatigue, filter off, finish, free from, get last drop, get rid of, gulp down, impoverish, lessen, milk, pump, pump out, quaff, reduce, sap, siphon, spend, strain, suck, suck dry, swallow, tap, tax, tire out, use up, waste, wear, wear down, weary, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | fill, pour |
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