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Meaning of suck dry | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, dry.

Examples

“The swimmers wore pantyhose to stop the leeches in the lake from sucking them dry.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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