exhausting [ig-zaw-sting]
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exhaust [ig-zawst]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tire or wear out
Synonyms: 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, poop out, prostrate, run ragged, sap*, suck dry, tucker, use up, weaken, wear down, weary
Antonyms: animate, invigorate, refresh
Main Entry: exhausting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tiring
Synonyms: debilitating, depleting, draining, fatiguing, sapping, taxing, tiresome, wearing, wearying
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: use wrongly
Synonyms: dissipate, exhaust, misemploy, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overtax, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste
Notes: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it
Antonyms: benefit, care for, esteem, prize, respect, revere
Main Entry: arduous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, hard to endure
Synonyms: backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, no picnic, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill
Antonyms: easy, facile, motivating
Main Entry: backbreaking
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strenuous
Synonyms: arduous, exhausting, grueling, hard, laborious, punishing, taxing, toilsome, wearisome
Main Entry: bleed
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extort
Synonyms: blackmail, confiscate, deplete, drain, exhaust, extract, fleece, impoverish, leech, milk, mulct, overcharge, pauperize, put the screws to, rook, sap*, skin*, squeeze*, steal, stick*, strong-arm
Main Entry: bore
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause weariness, disinterest
Synonyms: afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry
Antonyms: amuse, charm, excite, interest, please
Main Entry: clear out
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: empty something
Synonyms: clean out, dispose of, eliminate, exhaust, get rid of, remove, sort, tidy up
Antonyms: fill, fill up, put
Main Entry: collapse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall apart, break down
Synonyms: belly up, bend, break, cave in, conk out, crack up, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, fall down, flag, flake out, fold, founder, give, give in, give out, give way, go to pieces, go*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield
Antonyms: build, increase, rise
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