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

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