English Dictionary

drain

/dɹeɪn/

verb

(intransitive) To lose liquid. / (intransitive) To flow gradually. / (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of. / (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

The water began to drain from the sink.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To lose liquid.

The clogged sink drained slowly.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To flow gradually.

The water of low ground drains off.

意味（3）

(transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.

Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

意味（4）

(transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

意味（5）

(transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.

The stress of this job is really draining me.

意味（6）

(transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.

意味（7）

(transitive, obsolete) To filter.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

意味（8）

(intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

When a ball finally drains, it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.