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Adjective: drained  dreynd
  1. Emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)
    "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"
     
  2. Extremely exhausted
    - knackered [Brit, informal], zonked [informal], zonked out [informal], stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ, informal], deadbeat [Brit, informal], shagged out [Brit, informal], shagged [Brit, informal], shattered [Brit, informal], exhausted, dog-tired [informal], fagged [Brit, informal], fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone, shot [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], pooped [N. Amer, informal]
     
  3. Drained of electric charge; discharged
    "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained";
    - dead, flat [Brit]
Verb: drain  dreyn
  1. Flow off gradually
    "The rain water drains into this big vat";
    - run out
     
  2. Deplete of resources
    "The exercise class drains me of energy"
     
  3. Empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
    "We drained the oil tank"
     
  4. Make weak
    "Life in the camp drained him";
    - enfeeble, debilitate

See also: empty, exhausted, tired, uncharged

Type of: consume, course, deplete, eat, eat up, empty, exhaust, feed, flow, run, run through, use up, weaken, wipe out

Antonym: undrained

Encyclopedia: Drained

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