Word Finder - drained

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To lose liquid.

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The clogged sink drained slowly.

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To flow gradually.

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The water of low ground drains off.

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To cause liquid to flow out of.

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Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

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To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

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They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

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To deplete of energy or resources.

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The stress of this job is really draining me.

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To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

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To filter.

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To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

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Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.

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I felt so drained after that three-hour exam that I wanted to sleep for the next week.

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Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.

He tipped the glass up and drained it.

She was drained but more confident in her ability to use it.

Gabriel drained the bowl of water and placed the souls in his pocket.

But the deepest ponds are not so deep in proportion to their area as most suppose, and, if drained, would not leave very remarkable valleys.

Fred drained his glass and stacked it in the dishwasher.

She was exhausted and drained.

Leopold, among other useful works, drained the Val di Chiana, and restored those fertile upland plains to agriculture.

As embankments have to support the weight of heavy trains, they must be uniformly firm and well drained, and before the line is fully opened for traffic they must be allowed time to consolidate, a process which is helped by running construction or mineral trains over them.

He felt so empty and drained; he didn't know what to think.

She battled a wave of panic and felt drained as the feeling abated.

The color drained from her face a moment before she panicked.

A small area in the north-eastern corner of the state is drained northward by the Tennessee and the Hatchie.

Yully moved away from him, holding out her arms as she drained the surrounding area of magic.

At once, her body felt energized where she'd been drained before.

Suddenly all the fun drained out of teasing him.

He couldn't control the surge of adrenaline he experienced whenever he thought of sinking his teeth into his father's neck and draining his life from him, the way his father drained his mother's life.

The entire plateau area is drained by the Ohio river and its tributaries.

The northern slope of this great plateau is drained by the AraguayaTocantins, Xingu, Tapajos and Guapore-Mamore-Madeira, which flow northward, and, except the first, empty into the Amazon; the southern slope drains southward through a multitude of streams flowing into the Parana and Paraguay.

Care should be taken in planting to select a spot somewhat elevated and well drained.

The marshes have been drained, and a pumping station erected near Castel Fusano.

They are drained and in large part enclosed by the North (or Belle Fourche) and South forks of the Cheyenne river (at whose junction a fur-trading post was established about 1830); and are surrounded by semi-arid, alkaline plains lying 3000 to 3500 ft.

On rich loams and the alluvial soils of river-valleys, when well drained, the tree attains a large size, often rivalling the giant oaks of Europe; trunks of 3 or 4 ft.

He also defended the rights of the commoners of Ely threatened by the "adventurers" who had drained the Great Level, and he was nicknamed afterwards by a royalist newspaper "Lord of the Fens."

It is drained by the Doce, Mucury, Jequitinhonha and Pardo, which have their sources on the eastern slopes of the Espinhago and cut their way through the Aymores to the sea.

The nation hardly came into existence till China and India had passed their prime, and remained secluded and free from the continual struggle against barbarian invaders, which drained the energies of its neighbours.

For the pear orchard a warm situation is very desirable, with a soil deep, substantial, and thoroughly drained.

The silver fir flourishes in a deep loamy soil, and will grow even upon stiff clay, when well drained - a situation in which few conifers will succeed.

The till plains of north-western Ohio are drained chiefly by the Maumee and Sandusky rivers, with their tributaries, and the average fall of the Maumee is only 1.1 ft.

The reclaimed territory is level and excellently drained.

The low lands of the South are being drained partly by the state and partly by private companies.

The spent lye of the washing being drained off, the soap is now " boiled for strength."

The mangrove swamps at the north-west end of the harbour have been drained and partially built over.

The Nagpur country, drained by the Wardha and Wainganga rivers, contains towards the west the shallow black soil in which autumn crops like cotton and the large millet, juar, which do not require excessive moisture, can be successfully cultivated.

The bluff lands are simply old alluvium now well drained and above all floods.

The " buckshot clays " of the backlands, which are so stiff that they can scarcely be ploughed until flooded and softened, and are remarkably retentive of moisture, are ideal rice soil; but none of the alluvial lands has an underlying hardpan, and they cannot as a rule be drained sufficiently to make the use of heavy harvesting machinery possible.

The lamb thus drained of blood was to be roasted and entirely consumed by the Israelites, who should be ready with loins girded, shoes on feet and staff in hand so as to be prepared for the exodus.

The commercial greatness of Cardiff is due to the vast coal and iron deposits of the country drained by the Taff and Rhymney, between whose outlets the town is situated.

A few rivers in the south drain into the Mississippi through Iowa, while a smaller area in the extreme north is drained through the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake into Hudson Bay.

This lake drained southward into the Gulf of Mexico via the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, until the ice sheet which had prevented its natural drainage to the north had melted sufficiently to allow it to be drained off into Hudson Bay by way of the Nelson River.

Large areas of swamp lands in the central and north central parts of the state once counted non-arable have been drained and reclaimed.

Formerly filled with alpine lakes, these valleys are now sheeted with flat alluvial soil and occupied by human settlements, and are drained by rivers which flow along them before they make their way to the north through narrow gorges pierced in the mountain-walls.

Drinking clubs met to drink off matches, the winner being he who drained his cup most rapidly.

As soon as two-thirds of the lead has separated in the form of crystals, the steam is shut off and the liquid lead drained off through the two spouts into the moulds.

The western part of this plain is drained by the Uruguay and its tributaries, which places it within the river Plate (La Plata) basin.

Outside the two great river systems of the Amazon and river Plate (Rio de la Plata), which are treated under their respective titles, the rivers of Brazil are limited to the numerous small streams and three or four large rivers which flow eastward from the plateau regions directly into the Atlantic. The Amazon system covers the entire north-western part of the republic, the state of Amazonas, nearly the whole of Para and the greater part of Matto Grosso being drained by this great river and its tributaries.

Geographically it belongs to the Amazon basin, as its western and southern slopes are drained by tributaries of that great river.

The approach of foreign traders was prohibited, while the regalities reserved by the crown drained the country of a great proportion of its wealth.

The same infatuated passion for mining speculation which had characterized the Spanish settlers in South America now began to actuate the Portuguese; labourers and capital were drained off to the mining districts, and Brazil, which had hitherto in great measure supplied Europe with sugar, sank before the competition of the English and French.

So strong was the natural position of Paraguay, however, and so complete the subjection of its inhabitants to the will of the dictator, that it was not until the year 1870, after the republic had been completely drained of its manhood and resources, that the long war was terminated by the capture and death of Lopez with his last handful of men by the pursuing Brazilians.

In 1763 the first North Bridge, connecting the Old Town with the sloping ground on which afterwards stood the Register House and the theatre in Shakespeare Square, was opened; a little later the Nor' Loch was partially drained, and the bridging of the Cowgate in 1785 encouraged expansion southwards.