- DRAIN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DRAIN is to draw off (liquid) gradually or completely
- 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 (plumbing) - Wikipedia
A drain is the primary vessel or conduit for unwanted water or waste liquids to flow away, either to a more useful area, funnelled into a receptacle, or run into sewers or stormwater mains as waste discharge to be released or processed
- Drain - definition of drain by The Free Dictionary
To or into the condition of being wasted or lost: All of our best laid plans are down the drain
- drain - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
drain dreɪn v to empty by drawing off liquid: [~ + object] to drain a swamp [~ + object (+ of + object)] Drain the wound (of blood) before you apply the bandage [no object] The crankcase has to drain before you put on the new filter
- drain - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes
- 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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