suck dry in English

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      "form": "sucks dry",
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      "form": "sucked dry",
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        "To exhaust all the resources of someone or something."
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        "(informal, idiomatic, transitive) To exhaust all the resources of someone or something."
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          "word": "bleed dry"
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  "word": "suck dry"
}

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        "(informal, idiomatic, transitive) To exhaust all the resources of someone or something."
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  "word": "suck dry"
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"suck dry" meaning in English

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Inflected forms