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(noun) emptying accomplished by draining |
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Synonyms: drainage |
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Related Words: emptying, evacuation, voidance |
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(verb) flow off or away gradually; "The water drained from the pipe" |
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Synonyms: flow away, flow off |
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Related Words: discharge, empty |
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(verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank" |
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Related Words: bleed, empty |
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(noun) a gradual depletion; "a drain on resources" |
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Related Words: brain drain, depletion, drawing, drawing off |
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(verb) drain of resources |
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Synonyms: sap |
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Related Words: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, exhaust, run down, run through, sap, tire, use up, use up, wipe out |
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(verb) flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat" |
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Synonyms: run out |
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Related Words: course, flow, run |
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(noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
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Synonyms: drainpipe, waste pipe |
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Related Words: cloaca, culvert, pipage, pipe, piping, scupper, sewer, sewerage, soil pipe, trap |
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(verb) make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" |
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Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
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Related Words: emaciate, macerate, waste, weaken |
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