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n

1. juice, fluid, life fluid, Archaic. lymph; milk, blood, lifeblood, Class. Myth. ichor.

2.Slang. fool, dupe, gull, gudgeon, Inf. chump, Sl. schnook, Sl. schlemiel, sitting duck, easy mark, Inf. sucker, Sl. patsy, U.S. Sl. fall guy, Sl. pushover, Sl. jerk.

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v

undermine, weaken, impair, enfeeble, reduce; deplete, exhaust, wear, enervate, drain, bleed, milk, rob; invalidate, debilitate, cripple; destroy, ruin, sabotage, subvert; devastate, despoil, blight.