drain /drān/

1. To draw off by degrees
2. To filter
3. To draw off water, sewage or other liquid from
4. To provide a means of drainage, to install a drain
5. To make dry
6. To drink dry
7. To exhaust

1. To flow off gradually
2. To lose liquid gradually (eg by trickling or dripping)
3. To discharge

1. A watercourse
2. A channel allowing liquid to drain
3. A tube used to draw off fluid from a wound or cavity (medicine)
4. A ditch
5. A sewer
6. A drink (slang)
7. Expenditure that exhausts or diminishes

drainˈable adjective

drainˈage noun

1. An act, process, method or means of draining
2. Means of discharging water
3. The system of drains in a town

drainˈer noun

A device on which articles are placed to drain

drainage basin noun

The area of land that drains into one river

drainˈage-tube noun

A tube for discharge of pus, etc

draining board (or US drainˈboard) noun

A sloping surface beside a sink, where dishes, etc are placed to drain when washed

drainˈpipe noun

1. A pipe to carry away waste water or rainwater
2. (in pl; informal; also drainpipe trousers) very narrow trousers

drainˈ-tile noun

drainˈ-trap noun

A contrivance for preventing the escape of foul air from drains, while admitting water to them

down the drain (informal)

1. Gone for good
2. Wasted

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