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| Main Entry: |
wear out
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become worn |
| Synonyms: | break, decay, waste, wear |
| 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 |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go, go through, have recourse to, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, preoccupy, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, wash up, waste, wear out |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store |
| Main Entry: | debilitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | do in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; exhaust |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, bankrupt, bump off, butcher, cool*, dilapidate, dispatch, do away with, eliminate, execute, fatigue, finish, frazzle, kill, knock out, liquidate, murder, put away, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay, tire, wear out, weary, wreck |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, invent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | lash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, whip |
| Synonyms: | baste, batter, buffet, chastise, dash, drum, flagellate, flay, flog, hammer, hide, hit, horsewhip, knock, lam, lather, pound, pummel, scourge, smack, strap, strike, thrash, wear out, whale |
| 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: | 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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