| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm; wear out |
| Synonyms: | bring low, cripple, debilitate, defeat, destroy, disable, disarm, drain, drown, exhaust, fatigue, fell, floor, frazzle, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, knock over, level, mow, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overtire, overturn, paralyze, reduce, ruin, sap, tire, tucker out, weary, whelm, wreck |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down' supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please, soothe |
| Main Entry: | run out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, be exhausted |
| Synonyms: | be cleaned out, be out of, cease, close, come to a close, depart, dissipate, dry up, end, exhaust, expire, finish, give out, go, have no more, have none left, lose, peter out, stop, terminate, tire, waste, waste away, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | get, have, succeed, supply |
| Main Entry: | run through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up; waste |
| Synonyms: | blow, consume, dissipate, exhaust, expend, finish, fritter away, lose, spend, squander, throw 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, put in, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | shatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break into small pieces |
| Synonyms: | blast, blight, burst, crack, crash, crunch, crush, dash, demolish, destroy, disable, exhaust, explode, fracture, fragment, fragmentalize, fragmentize, impair, implode, overturn, pulverize, rend, rive, ruin, scrunch, shiver, smash, smash to smithereens, smatter, snap, splinter, splinterize, split, torpedo, total*, wrack up, wreck |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend |
| Main Entry: | smoke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fume; cigarette |
| Synonyms: | butt*, cig, exhaust, fog, gas, mist, pollution, smog, soot, vapor |
| Main Entry: | spend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, pay out |
| Synonyms: | absorb, allocate, ante up, apply, bestow, blow*, cast away, come across, come through, concentrate, confer, consume, contribute, cough up, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, donate, drain, drop, employ, empty, evote, exhaust, expend, foot the bill, fritter, give, hand out, invest, lavish, lay out, liquidate, misspend, outlay, pay down, pay up, put in, run through, settle, shell out, spring for, squander, throw away, use, use up, waste |
| Antonyms: | earn, get, receive |
| Main Entry: | task |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assign, burden |
| Synonyms: | charge, encumber, entrust, exhaust, lade, load, oppress, overload, push, saddle, strain, tax, test, weary, weigh, weight |
| Antonyms: | unburden |
| Main Entry: | tax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | charge, cumber, drain, encumber, enervate, exhaust, lade, load, make demands on, oppress, overburden, overtax, overuse, overwork, press hard on, pressure, prey on, push, put pressure on, saddle, sap, strain, stress, stretch, task, tire, try, weaken, wear out, weary, weigh, weigh down, weigh heavily on, weight |
| Antonyms: | unburden |