exhaust

Main Entry:
prostrate [pros-treyt]
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
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