Word Meanings - DRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

Additional info about word: DRAIN

1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley. 2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. Roscommon. 3. To filter. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRAIN)

• Draft Draw
• drain
• exhaust
• Drink
• Imbibe
• swallow
• quaff
• absorb
• draught
• Dry Drain
• parch
• Exhaust
• Empty
• spend
• consume
• debilitate
• waste
• void
• weaken
• weary
• Pittance
• Dole
• driblet
• drop
• scantling

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRAIN)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill

Related words: (words related to DRAIN)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• REPLENISHMENT
  1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.