0 to remove all useful, valuable qualities or possessions from a person, thing, or place: --
Out-of-town stores have sucked the life out of the city centre.
Big cities suck the surrounding towns dry of local talent.
That firm sucks its new programmers dry after five years and then fires them.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
suck sb/sth dry