Usually means: Remove or disappear by flowing away.
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  1. drain (sth) away: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. drain away: Wiktionary
  3. drain away: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. drain away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drain away)

▸ verb:  To diminish over time; to disappear or leak out gradually.

Similar:
diminish, tail away, drain, die away, seep, tail off, drop away, fade away, fall away, fade, more...

Opposite:
accumulate, gather, collect, amass

Phrases:
drain away from soil, more...

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Similar:
diminish, tail away, drain, die away, seep, tail off, drop away, fade away, fall away, fade, more...

Opposite:
accumulate, gather, collect, amass

Phrases:
drain away from soil, more...



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