suck dry in English

Forms: sucks dry [present, singular, third-person], sucking dry [participle, present], sucked dry [participle, past], sucked dry [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} suck dry (third-person singular simple present sucks dry, present participle sucking dry, simple past and past participle sucked dry)

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sucks dry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sucking dry",
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    },
    {
      "form": "sucked 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "suck dry"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sucks dry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sucking dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sucked dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sucked dry",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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        "English idioms",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
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        "Pages with entries"
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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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        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "suck dry"
}

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"suck dry" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms