n
(medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.
v
(surgery) To drain off excess fluid from a part of the body in which it accumulates.
n
Material deposited by the flow of debris.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To flow.
v
(intransitive) To lose liquid.
v
To diminish over time; to disappear or leak out gradually.
v
(transitive) To empty (something) completely of liquids; to drain completely.
v
(figuratively) To get rid of the root causes of problems, especially to rid politics and government of evils, such as corruption and bureaucracy.
v
To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To remove by using a siphon.
v
Obsolete form of drain. [(intransitive) To lose liquid.]
v
(intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
v
(obsolete) To milk out; to drain.
n
(dated) An extinguisher.
v
To flow (or be forced) from a vessel.
v
(intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
n
Liquid that flows off or out of something.
n
The act by which something is flushed.
v
To shun; to give the cold shoulder.
v
(transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
v
(transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
v
(transitive) To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.
adj
(nonce word) Which drains life, energy, strength, etc.
n
The act of disposing of waste (especially nuclear waste) in a deep section of the ocean.
n
Alternative form of oil-down [The application of oil to the body in order to soothe and/or prevent drying.]
v
(transitive) To extract groundwater from (an aquifer) beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
n
The act of regurgitating.
n
Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
n
The act by which something seeps.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
v
(ditransitive) To give to someone an abundance of (something); to give someone something many times in quick succession.
v
(transitive) To drain below the surface.
v
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
v
(transitive) To drain the surface of (a field, farm, etc.).
v
(transitive, dated) To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
v
(transitive) To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in.
n
A water collection system that drains water away from a location.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To clear the liquid from a flooded area.
v
To dilute; to add water to.
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