Word Meaning

Meaning of "drain" and the crossword clue

- Bleed
- Deplete
- Ditch
- Doctor in a repaired sewer
- Draw off liquid from
- Draw off water from
- Draw off water from five hundred showers
- Empty (glass)
- Exhaust
- Filter
- Flow away
- Flow off gradually
- Plughole
- Sap
- Separate
- Sink hole
- Suck dry
- Thing that uses up resources
- Trench
- Waste pipe
- Water outlet
- When gang leader leaves, drag in sewer
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
- 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.
- To filter.
- To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
- To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
- The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
- That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
- The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.