DRAIN

Drain

A drain is the primary vessel for unwanted water to be flumed away, either to a more useful area, funnelled into a receptacle, or run into the sewers as waste.

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drain

Noun

  1. A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.
    The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
  2. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
    That rental property is a drain on our finances.
  3. An act of urination.
  4. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Verb

  1. To lose liquid.
    The clogged sink drained slowly.
  2. To flow gradually.
    The water of low ground drains off.
  3. To cause liquid to flow out of.
    Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
  4. To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
    They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
  5. To deplete of energy or resources.
    The stress of this job is really draining me.
  6. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
  7. To filter.
  8. To fall off the bottom of the playfield.


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