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sucking dry

sucking dry is the present participle and gerund of suck dry.

Meaning of suck dry

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To 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.

Questions about sucking dry

What is sucking dry the present participle and gerund of?
Sucking dry is the present participle and gerund of suck dry.

Words near sucking dry in the dictionary

  1. sucking dick
  2. sucking diesel
  3. sucking donkey balls
  4. sucking donkey cock
  5. sucking down
  6. sucking dry
  7. sucking face
  8. sucking hind tit
  9. sucking in
  10. sucking into
  11. sucking it and seeing

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