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Verb
(informal) Present participle for to exhaust (someone)
pooping
exhausting
draining
wearying
enervating
fatiguing
sapping
enfeebling
tuckering
debilitating
overexerting
weakening
frazzling
overextending
overfatiguing
prostrating
overtiring
overworking
conking out
petering out
doing in
pooping out
tiring out
wearing down
wearing out
sucking dry
taking it out of
tiring
disabling
crippling
overdoing
drawing
bankrupting
impoverishing
wearing
busting
breaking
using up
outwearing
killing
harassing
knackering
shattering
overtaxing
rooting
knocking out
tuckering out
washing out
wearing yourself out
running into the ground
tiring yourself out
wearing oneself to a shadow
doing up
wiping out
making tired
wearing oneself to a frazzle
nearly killing
devitalizing
incapacitating
etiolating
taxing
depleting
softening
wasting
jading
bushing
whacking
wearing to a frazzle
indisposing
undermining
torpefying
immobilizingUS
paralysingUK
making feeble
laying low
paralyzingUS
making weak
flagging
immobilisingUK
impairing
sinking
emasculating
diminishing
languishing
succumbing
drooping
fizzling
reducing
sapping your strength
putting out of action
straining
handicapping
bedraggling
dropping
sagging
vitiating
attenuating
eviscerating
failing
sapping the strength of
making weary
rendering infirm
growing tired
shagging out
growing weary
getting tired
draining of energy
becoming exhausted
boring
blunting
exasperating
sickening
bonking
disempowering
destroying
burdening
hitting the wall
plaguing
drowsing
getting the better of
oppressing
weighing
paining
fading
glutting
extenuating
hampering
encumbering
hindering
marring
injuring
hurting
harming
making feebler
removing the sting from
reducing the powers of
depriving of force
folding
overburdening
collapsing
fainting
overstraining
yawning
unstrengthening
causing ennui
taking
atrophying
running out of steam
stressing out
becoming drained
breaking down
running down
withering
becoming fatigued
confining to a wheelchair
confining to bed
making sleepy
going stale
becoming tired
putting to sleep
shrivellingUK
emaciating
shrivelingUS
wearing on
shrinking
consuming
gnawing
corroding
hamstringing
ruining
disarming
dwindling
depressing
wrecking
overthrowing
mowing
defeating
eating away
running low
making powerless
making helpless
making impotent
getting less
becoming depleted
bringing someone to their knees
bringing low
“Sore ribs and a banged up shoulder meant that staying on the bike while running ragged would be nearly impossible, and forcing him to tone it down for his race run.”
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