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transitive. figurative. To exhaust the mental, emotional, or physical resources of; to ruin, bring to nothing. Also: to deprive or divest of.
To drain (a person, kingdom, etc.) of strength or resources, or (a soil) of nutritive ingredients; hence, to weary out, enfeeble extremely.