suck dry

verb

To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.

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

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Meanings

verbsuck dry (third-person singular simple present sucks dry, present participle sucking dry, simple past and past participle sucked dry)

present singular third person sucks dry · participle present sucking dry · participle past sucked dry · past sucked dry

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

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

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APA

suck dry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suck%20dry

MLA

“suck dry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suck%20dry. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suck dry,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suck%20dry.

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