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- DRAIN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DRAIN is to draw off (liquid) gradually or completely How to use drain in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Drain
- DRAIN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it:
- DRAIN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Drain definition: to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration See examples of DRAIN used in a sentence
- Drain - definition of drain by The Free Dictionary
1 To flow off or out: Gasoline drained slowly from the tilted can 2 To become empty by the drawing off of liquid: watched the tub slowly drain 3 To discharge surface or excess water: The Niagara River drains into Lake Ontario When flooded, the swamp drains northward 4 To become gradually depleted; dwindle: felt his enthusiasm draining
- Drain Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
Drain definition: To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process
- DRAIN - Definition Translations | Collins English Dictionary
A drain is a pipe that carries water or sewage away from a place, or an opening in a surface that leads to the pipe
- drain verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of drain verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [transitive, intransitive] drain (something) to make something empty or dry by removing the liquid from it; to become empty or dry in this way Drain and rinse the pasta The marshes have been drained
- DRAIN Synonyms: 167 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Some common synonyms of drain are bankrupt, deplete, exhaust, and impoverish While all these words mean "to deprive of something essential to existence or potency," drain implies a gradual withdrawal and ultimate deprivation of what is necessary to an existence
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