drainn.
/dreɪn/, U.S. /dreɪn/ 1. figurative.1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 165 Such a leud and vicious sort of People, that seem to have run together, as to the Drain of Humane Nature.† b. A teat. Obsolete. rare.
a. A channel by which liquid is drained or gradually carried off; esp. an artificial conduit or channel for carrying off water, sewage, etc.In the Fen districts, including wide canal-like navigable channels. (See Penny Cycl. at Bedford Level.) Elsewhere, applied chiefly to covered sewage drains or field drains.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer
cockey1390
gutterc1440
soughc1440
sew1475
withdraught1493
sink1499
syre1513
closet1531
draught1533
vault1533
drain1552
fleet1583
issue1588
drainer1598
guzzle1598
shore1598
sewer1609
vennel1641
cloaca1656
cuniculus1670
pend1817
thurrock1847
sewer line1977
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch
dikec893
gripa1000
ditch1045
fosselOE
water-furrowlOE
sow1316
furrowc1330
rick1332
sewer1402
gripplec1440
soughc1440
grindle1463
sheugh1513
syre1513
rain?1523
trench1523
slough1532
drain1552
fowsie?1553
thorougha1555
rean1591
potting1592
trink1592
syver1606
graft1644
work1649
by-ditch1650
water fence1651
master drain1652
rode1662
pudge1671
gripe1673
sulcus1676
rhine1698
rilling1725
mine1743
foot trench1765
through1777
trench drain1779
trenchlet1782
sunk fence1786
float1790
foot drain1795
tail-drain1805
flow-dike1812
groopa1825
holla1825
thorough drain1824
yawner1832
acequia madre1835
drove1844
leader1844
furrow-drain1858
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drayne, sulcus.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. xi. f. 32v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Here also it receiueth ye Baston dreane, Longtoft dreane, Deeping dreane, & thence goeth by Wickham into the sea.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn Rayon..a drane to drawe the water out of a field.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 Sept. (1970) II. 185 A stop at Charing-cross, by reason of digging of a drayne there to clear the streets.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 344 Through these Fens run great Cuts or Dreyns, in which are a great many Fish.
1739 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (ed. 4) III. 8 Gentlemen convert their Marshes into good fruitful Meadows, by contriving large Fosses and Drains to carry off the Water.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing ii. 16 Another great evil in house construction is carrying drains underneath the house.
1882 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 2/4 Several drains..will be fishable tomorrow.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Dec. 2/3 You are sometimes asked in Yorkshire to go for a picnic on the drain..you discover that ‘drain’ is merely the local name for canal.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder > teat
titOE
mammaOE
teat?a1200
udder1582
drain1587
papilla1684
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 260 Euery pigge will but sucke his drene or teate.
c. Applied to a natural watercourse which drains a tract of country.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel
runeOE
sitchOE
pipeOE
sichetc1133
guttera1300
siket1300
sikec1330
watergate1368
gole?a1400
gotea1400
flout14..
aa1430
trough1513
guta1552
race1570
lode1572
canala1576
ditch1589
trink1592
leam1601
dike1616
runlet1630
stell1651
nullah1656
course1665
drain1700
lade1706
droke1772
regimen1797
draught1807
adit1808
sluit1818
thalweg1831
runway1874
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Meleager & Atalanta in Fables 108 A Valley stood below: the common Drain Of Waters from above, and falling Rain.
1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 311 The little runs and drains, that come through the hills.
1822 J. Fowler Jrnl. 144 Crossing over and down a small drean about two miles wide..we went up a small Branch.
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 76 About noon, the travellers reached the ‘drains’ and brooks that formed the head-waters of the river.
1876 V. L. Cameron Across Afr. (1885) 511 The main drain of the country is the Walé nullah.
d. Surgery. A tubular instrument used to draw off the discharge from a wound or abscess.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for extracting matter > [noun]
sucking-bottle1688
trocar1706
breast pump1807
stomach-pump1829
drain1834
stomach-tube1844
milk-pump1853
aspirator1876
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 106 When the case is chronic, setons or some other protracted drain should never be neglected.
1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 18 There was immediate union of the flaps of the wounds save where the drains emerged.
e. Colloquial figurative phrase, to go (etc.) down the drain, to disappear, get lost, vanish; to deteriorate, go to waste.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)]
adrillc1350
slip1390
to carry away1604
to go (etc.) down the drain1930
1925 ‘F. Lonsdale’ Last of Mrs. Cheyney 10 It is she who closes the drain on them as they go down it on the Thursday.]
1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 52 All his savings are gone down the drain.
1933 W. Chetham-Strode in Famous Plays of 1933 449 We're all so down the drain no one's got anything.
1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing 234 Others, dozens of Leontiev's colleagues, had..collapsed or made fatal mistakes and gone down the drain.
1952 ‘J. H. Chase’ Double Shuffle ix. 184 We had paid out good money to get those policies, and we couldn't afford to let them go down the drain.
1958 Listener 7 Aug. 196/1 A poor devil who goes down the drain before a temptation that he finds too strong.
1960 H. Pinter Dumb Waiter in Birthday Party, etc. 130 I thought these sheets didn't look too bright. I thought they ponged a bit... I told you things were going down the drain.
1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 471 It appeared that at least one donor country was realizing that aid could easily go down the drain.
f. Colloquial phrase to laugh like a drain, to laugh loudly.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely
kenchc1225
fleer1553
checkle1627
roar1689
guffaw1721
horse-laugh1763
cachinnate1824
snort1825
haw-haw1833
yaw-haw1836
to laugh like a drain1948
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 109 Laugh like a drain, to chuckle ‘consumedly’; laugh loudly, especially at someone's discomfiture. (Ward-room and also Army officers’.)
1957 M. Sharp Eye of Love iv. 48 ‘What did you call me?’ asked Harry Gibson—and laughed like a drain.
1958 S. Gibbons White Sand & Grey Sand 222 I shall laugh like a drain if she's world-famous in another five years or so.
1966 ‘K. Nicholson’ Hook, Line & Sinker xv. 174 Old Hester would laugh like a drain if she could see us singing hymns over her.
2. The act of draining or drawing off, drainage; now only figurative constant or gradual outlet, withdrawal, or expenditure.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > constant or gradual
drainage1652
drain1721
draining1849
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > drawing off water or moisture
draining1565
drainage1652
drain1721
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 10 Sluices or Trunks..made for the drein of the Levels.
1732 J. Swift Proposal National Debt in Wks. (1761) III. 213 Remittances to pay absentees..and many other drains of money.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 392 Owing..to the great drains of people sent to America.
1829 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 65 A sad drain upon my time.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 307 Which caused no drain on the revenue of the state.
1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 308 The excess of phosphates indicates the ‘drain’ on the nervous energies.
3.
a. That which is drained or drawn off; a small remaining quantity of liquid.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small > remaining
drain1868
1868 C. H. Ross Bk. Cats A..jug..with a drain of milk in the bottom of it.
b. slang. A drink.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of
strong drink?1490
drink1535
whiff1605
tip1612
wet1719
swilla1731
booze1732
slug1756
whitter1786
intoxication1799
O (or oh) be joyful1823
sneezer1823
north-wester1830
drain1836
damp1837
smile1839
snifter1844
liquor1860
rosiner1871
tiddlywink1880
bevvy1889
gargle1889
snort1889
jolt1904
smahan1914
tincture1914
taste1919
piss1925
drinkie1947
smash1959
shant1960
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 284 Two old men who came in ‘just to have a drain’.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 189 He stood drains round.
4.
a. plural. Dregs from which liquid has been drained.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > sediment left after liquor drunk
drains1820
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 107 I had..emptied some dull opiate to the drains.
b. dialect. Brewers' grains from the mash-tub.
ΚΠ
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Drains, grains from the mash-tub, through which the wort has been drained off.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
drain air n.
ΚΠ
1895 E. A. Parkes Care Health 95 The escape of drain air into the house.
drain-digger n.
drain-tax n.
ΚΠ
1720 London Gaz. No. 5869/3 A[n] Estate lying in Deeping Level ..subject to Drain Taxes.
drain-tile n.
ΚΠ
1851 J. Brown Forester (ed. 2) i. 46 We are now putting a drain-tile into the ditches and filling them up.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 264/1 Drain tiles, hollow tiles laid end to end without joints, to carry off surface or excess water.
C2.
drain-cock n. a cock for draining the water out of a boiler, etc.
ΚΠ
1894 Daily News 23 Jan. 6/5 The drain cocks blew out and the boilers emptied themselves into the vessel's bilges.
drain-exhauster n. a machine for pumping up the water from deep drains.
ΚΠ
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 97 The steam-driven pump—quite a different affair from the Fen drain-exhauster.
drain-grenade n. see grenade n.1 2b.
drain-plough n. a plough for cutting field-drains, a draining-plough.
ΚΠ
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 706 The drain plough was first introduced into Scotland by Mr. McEwan.
drain-trap n. a trap on a drain to prevent the escape of sewer-gas.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Drain-traps, contrivances for preventing the escape of foul air from drains.
drain-well n. see quot.
ΚΠ
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Drain-well, a pit sunk through an impervious stratum of earth to reach a pervious stratum and form a means of drainage for surface water.
Draft additions 1993
drain layer n. (a) a person or company that lays or repairs drains; (b) a machine used in the construction of a drainage system.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > other building or constructing equipment
centry1398
centrels1415
cintern1442
centre1470
centring1671
cocket centre1827
striking-plate1837
spiling1841
erector1895
drain layer1915
telltale1922
runner1970
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > drain layer
drain layer1915
1915 Census Eng. & Wales: Classified Lists of Occupations 123 in Parl. Papers 1914–16 (Cd. 7660) LXXXI. 1 Diver (Bridge Erection). Drain Layer. Drain Pipe Fitter.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon vi. 125 The negligence of a drainlayer who had failed to..tidy up after the job he had been engaged on.
1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. Weekly Econ. Rep. (B.B.C.) 23 Mar. SU/W1024/A/12 For work on land hardened by frost special excavating machines are used. A drain-layer is employed which can lay more than one kilometre of pipe an hour in frozen ground.
1991 Newsday (N.Y.) 28 July (East End ed.) 2 Approves Francis Brothers Sewer and Drainage Inc. as a drain layer for the Town of Riverhead Sewer District.
Draft additions January 2005
Electronics. In a field-effect transistor: the terminal through which the current carriers (electrons or holes) leave the device. Cf. gate n.1 8h.
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1952 W. Shockley in Proc. IRE 40 1368/1 It seems appropriate to consider choosing a new set of names for the three terminals [of a unipolar transistor]... The choice selected is ‘source’.., ‘drain’.., and ‘gate’ for the control electrodes that modulate the channel.
1967 Internat. Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE) 70 Current will flow between source and drain if the recorded threshold voltage is less negative than the interrogating gate voltage.
1987 Physics Bull. Mar. 110/3 We see a conventional secondary electron scanning micrograph of the transistor, revealing sections of the source and drain metal pads.
2002 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) June 56/1 (caption) One proposed design of a spin FET (spintronic field-effect transistor) has a source and a drain, separated by a narrow semiconducting channel, the same as in a conventional FET.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
drainv.
/dreɪn/, U.S. /dreɪn/ I. Senses in which the liquid or other substance removed is the direct object.† 1. transitive. To strain (liquid) through any porous medium. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > filter [verb (transitive)]
drainc1000
felter1563
filter1576
transcolate1615
filtrate1639
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 24 Ge drehnigeað [v.r. drehniað; Hatton G. drenieð] þone gnætt aweg.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 72 Wyll swiðe well on buteran; dreahna ut þurh wyllene clað.
c1500 Spirit. Remedies in J. O. Halliwell Nugæ Poeticæ (1844) 67 Drayne it and dringke it with confescione.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. viii. 95 Dreane away what is left of the vineger.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §2 Salt-water drayned through twenty vessels.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 605 Old Proteus from the Sea, Draind through a Limbec to his Native forme. View more context for this quotation
2. † b. To let fall in drops strained out. Obsolete. rare.
a. To draw off or away (a liquid) gradually, or in small quantities, by means of a conduit or the like; to carry off or away by means of a drain.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by draining
draina1552
draw1580
spring1597
unwater1642
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > draw water or moisture off (from)
strain15..
sewa1513
draina1552
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid
exhaust1540
draina1552
to draw off1594
uncask1594
spring1597
carry1602
tap1602
milka1628
to carry off1677
evacuate1719
drafta1875
aspirate1880
bleed1889
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 83 A Causey of Stone with divers Bridges over it to dreane the low Medow Waters..into Aire Ryver.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iv. iv. 262 A hand-kercheefe..did dreyne The purple sappe from her sweet Brothers body.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. ii. 2 The streams of milk and hony..are now drained dry.
1671 tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania 39 It is impossible to passe it, untill the waters..are all dreined away.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 28 A Puddle of Water, which I gave Directions to be drain'd.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 621 Small trenches are cut through the field to drain off the rain.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 29 The ordinary flow of tears is thus drained into the nostril.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 142 To draine Vpon his face an Ocean of salt teares. View more context for this quotation
3. transferred and figurative. To carry off, withdraw, take away as by a drain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)]
atbraidOE
benimOE
fornimOE
to reach upOE
reaveOE
bilacchea1325
to take away1372
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privea1387
beneme1387
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deprivec1400
subduce1434
embezzle1469
pluckc1475
fortakea1500
raima1500
devest1538
rig1573
imbolish1592
exact1660
drain1673
1673 J. Milton True Relig. in Wks. (1851) 412 The Pope..was wont to dreign away greatest part of the wealth of this..Land.
1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iv. 527 He..permitted those of Rome to exhaust and drain the Wealth of England.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iv. 433 To expend as much as it could possibly drain from its subjects.
4. To drink (a liquid) off or to the last drops.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink up or off
swap?1507
swingea1529
drink1535
uphalec1540
toss1568
trill off?1589
snapa1592
to toss offa1592
to turn down1593
to top off1598
drain1604
to take off1613
outdrinka1631
whip1639
swoop1648
epote1657
to fetch off1657
ebibe1689
fetch1691
to tip off1699
to sweep off1707
tip1784
to turn over1796
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 11 He draines his drafts of Rennish downe.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 525 Who..the sweet Essence of Amomum drains.
1823 Ld. Byron Island i. vi. 12 [They] drained the draught with an applauding cheer.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 17 He drained the..remaining drops of the three-pennyworth of cream.
5. intransitive. Of liquid: To percolate or trickle through; to flow gradually off or away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > lose liquid or moisture by draining [verb (intransitive)] > of liquid: to drain away
drain1587
to draw off1800
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > percolation > cause to percolate [verb (transitive)] > percolate through
drain1587
percolate1735
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 237 Let the blud dreyne out, the mouing wex weake, the sences fayle.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 80 They..fill with fresh water; but I belieue it dreaneth thither from the higher land.
a1672 F. Willughby Journey Spain in J. Ray Observ. Topogr. (1673) 478 The juice dreins down through the course sugar at the bottom.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Malt Let the Water drein well and equally from the Corn.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 3 The vast volume of water sent down from above drains away seawards.
II. Senses in which the thing from which something is removed is the direct object.
6. transitive. To withdraw the water or moisture from (anything) gradually by straining, suction, formation of conduits, etc.; to leave (anything) dry by withdrawal of moisture.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > gradually
drain1577
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > draw water or moisture off (from) > leave dry by withdrawal of moisture
drain1577
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ix. sig. F.ivv/2 Bodies dreyned from the dregges of all corruption.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 17 Ile dreyne him drie as Hay. View more context for this quotation
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §100 Drein all sorts of Mines, and furnish Cities with water.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 66 Dutch Engineers may drain its Bogs.
1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) v. 161 In the valleys drained by the Sacramento and the San Joaquin.
1890 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6) 128 The emulsion may be drained..by placing it on a hair sieve.
1896 Law Times 100 488/1 A pipe or sewer which also drained another house.
7. To empty by drinking; to drink dry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > empty by drinking
quaff1595
to suck out1688
drain1697
unload1846
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 Two Kids..drein two bagging Udders every day.
1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 15 I drain'd the Spicy Nut-brown Bowl.
1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 15 Where God Bacchus drains his cups divine.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxiii. 201 They had drained the cup of life to the dregs.
8. transferred and figurative. To deprive (a person or thing) of possessions, properties, resources, strength, etc., by their gradual withdrawal; to exhaust.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > completely
bestrip1065
stripa1225
shavec1399
barec1440
strip1594
shrig1601
undress1641
drain1660
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 293 How the King of Fez had drained their Countrey.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 36 You have..drain'd all the French Plays and Romances.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. vii. 143 These expences..drained him so much, that he again quitted Rome.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 784 Drained to the last poor item of his wealth, He sighs.
1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 295 The cities drain the country of the best part of its population.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §4. 189 The treasury.. was drained by his Norman wars.
9. intransitive. To become rid of moisture by its gradual percolation or flowing away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > lose liquid or moisture by draining [verb (intransitive)]
drain1699
draw1843
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry by gradual percolation or flowing away
drain1699
1699 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 9) 116 Having laid them [pots] sidelong to drain.
1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xviii. 288 Lay them on a coarse cloth to drain.
1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 i. 43 This land won't drain.
1892 W. K. Burton Mod. Photogr. (ed. 10) 142 The prints, as they are taken from the washing water, are allowed to drain.
Derivatives
drained adj. /dreɪnd/
/dreɪnd/ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > emptied of liquid or moisture
drained1611
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
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asadc1306
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attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
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methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
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prostrate1820
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told out1822
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traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
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floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escoulé, drained.
1655 S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 270 Trees..planted in the drained Fens..by Dutchmen.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 180 He..the drein'd goblet to the Chief restores.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. v, in Maud & Other Poems 3 A scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd.
a1881 Rossetti Spring Where the drained flood-lands flaunt their marigold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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