English Dictionary

drain

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹeɪn/

動詞

自動詞 作格 他動詞 廃用

(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.

日本語の意味

液体が減る（液体が流れ落ちる） / 少しずつ流れる / 液体を排出させる / 湿地帯を乾燥地帯に変える

The wound continued to drain for days.

その傷口から何日も液体が出続けた。

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.

drains （ present singular third-person ）

draining （ participle present ）

drained （ participle past ）

drained （ past ）