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How to pronounce drained in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms knackered
Type Words
Synonyms dead


left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained.
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a drained marsh.
a drained tank.
a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything.

Examples of drained

drained
Ryan Tahl, who drained three 3-pointers, and Jamika Parker had 12 points apiece.
From the thenewstribune.com
They will tolerate dry soil, but grow best in good, moist but well-drained soil.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Grow this ginger in filtered sun or part shade in well-drained, humus-rich soil.
From the sfgate.com
He said Kelsey's care had drained his family's finances as well as its emotions.
From the stltoday.com
Grow cotinus in any moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun.
From the expressandstar.com
If the sky hasn't fallen by then, steam could be drained from the recall effort.
From the post-gazette.com
Recently, I mistakenly left the lights on overnight and drained the new battery.
From the online.wsj.com
My grandmother used to keep a container of drained fat at the back of the stove.
From the tennessean.com
They prefer dappled light, well drained but moisture retentive soil and compost.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • Emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
  • Flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat"
  • Deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"
  • Tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
  • A pipe through which liquid is carried away
  • Empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"
  • Drain is a creator-owned comic by writer C. B. Cebulski and is painted by Sana Takeda and published by Image Comics.
  • A drain is the primary vessel for unwanted water to be flumed away, either to a more useful area, funnelled into a receptacle, or run into the sewers as waste.
  • A surgical drain is a tube used to remove pus, blood or other fluids from a wound. Drains inserted after surgery do not result in faster wound healing or prevent infection but are sometimes necessary to drain body fluid which may accumulate and in itself become a focus of infection. ...