aufbrauchen — meaning in English

English meaning

• absorb verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
• deplete verb To make the amount of something smaller by taking part of it away.
• dissipate verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
• exhaust verb To use up something completely, or to wear someone out.

Senses

aufbrauchen is used for these senses in English:

• absorb (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]
• deplete (ambitransitive) To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
• dissipate (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
• run through (transitive, idiomatic) To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.

absorb — full definition

1. verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
2. verb To take in and reduce the force of an impact, sound, or shock.
3. verb To fully occupy someone's attention or interest.
4. verb To take on a cost so that others don't have to pay it.

deplete — full definition

1. verb To make the amount of something smaller by taking part of it away.
2. verb To lessen the quantity of something by removing part of it.
3. verb (chemistry) To use up or separate out a substance taking part in a reaction.
4. verb To lower the level of a substance in the body through medicine, treatment or illness.

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