How to use drain in a sentence Look up drain in wiktionary, the free dictionary. If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it:
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To withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually
Remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration.
See examples of drain used in a sentence. From coffee grounds to household cleaners, here are nine things plumbers say you shouldn’t pour down the drain. To or into the condition of being wasted or lost All of our best laid plans are down the drain.
If you say that something is a drain on an organization's finances or resources, you mean that it costs the organization a large amount of money, and you do not consider that it is worth it. To empty by drawing off liquid [~ + object] to drain a swamp [~ + object (+ of + object)] drain the wound (of blood) before you apply the bandage
[no object] the crankcase has to drain before you put on the new filter.
