Draining

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drain \Drain\ (dr[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drained}
     (dr[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Draining}.] [AS. drehnigean to
     drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
     1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or
        off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
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              Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
                                                    --Bacon.
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              But it was not alone that the he drained their
              treasure and hampered their industry. --Motley.
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     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.
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              Sinking waters, the firm land to drain,
              Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.
                                                    --Roscommon.
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     3. To filter.
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              Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth,
              hath become fresh.                    --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Draining \Drain"ing\, vb. n. of {Drain}, v. t. (Agric.)
     The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.
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     {Draining tile}. Same as {Draintile}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  draining
       adj : having a debilitating effect; "an exhausting job in the hot
             sun" [syn: {exhausting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "draining":
     aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, breakdown, broaching, clamant,
     clamorous, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, collapse,
     coming apart, crack-up, cracking, crumbling, crying, cupping,
     decadent, declining, defecation, degenerate, demanding, depletion,
     deteriorating, devitalizing, discharging cargo, disintegrating,
     drafting, drainage, drawing, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete,
     egress, elimination, emptying, enervating, enfeebling, evacuation,
     exacting, excretion, exhaustedness, exhausting, exhaustion,
     exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, fading, failing, falling,
     fatiguesome, fatiguing, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces,
     grasping, grueling, importunate, insistent, instant, killing,
     languishing, loud, marcescent, milking, nervous exhaustion,
     nervous prostration, off-loading, persistent, pertinacious,
     phlebotomy, pining, pipetting, pressing, prostration, pumping,
     punishing, regressive, removal, retrograde, retrogressive, sapping,
     shriveling, sinking, siphoning, sliding, slipping, slumping,
     straining, stressful, subsiding, sucking, suction, tabetic,
     tapping, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, unloading,
     urgent, venesection, venting, voidance, voiding, waning, wasting,
     weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wilting,
     withering, worsening