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истощать — meaning in English

istoshchat

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English meaning

  • drain noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
  • exhaust verb To use up something completely, or to wear someone out.
  • sap noun The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying nutrients.
  • tax noun Money that a government requires people or businesses to pay, used to fund public services.
  • unnerve verb To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.

Senses

истощать is used for these senses in English:

  • drain (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
  • emaciate (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
  • exhaust (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
  • exhaust (transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.
  • sap (transitive) To gradually weaken.
  • tax (transitive) To make excessive demands on.

drain — full definition

  1. noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
  2. verb To cause liquid to flow away, or for liquid to flow away, from something.
  3. verb To gradually use up someone's energy, money, or resources.
  4. noun Something that steadily consumes resources without giving anything back.

exhaust — full definition

  1. verb To use up something completely, or to wear someone out.
  2. noun The waste gases released by an engine, or the system that carries them out.

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