drain

noun

vessel or conduit for unwanted water or waste liquids to be flumed away

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verb

remove water from; generally using gravity
unfill, empty

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɹeɪn/ / /dɹiːn/

name

Etymology: * As an Irish surname, from Ó Dreáin (“descendant of Dreán”), probably from dreán (“wren, songbird”) (see Welsh dryw (“wren”)). * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Druacháin; see Drohan. * As an English surname, occupational surname related to the noun drain. * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Drane. * As a French surname, reduced from Derain, from Old French dererain (“the last”), nickname for the youngest son of a family; see derrière (“behind”).

A surname.
A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *draugiz Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn Old English drēahnian Middle English *dreinen English drain Inherited from Middle English *dreinen, from Old English drēahnian, from Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn, from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną, from *draugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-, from *dʰer-. Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.

A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
“The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.”
“bathtub drain; floor drain; shower drain; sink drain”
An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
“Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain”
“[…] the little runs and drains, that come through the hills, and to the sources of the creeks and their branches.”
Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
“That rental property is a drain on our finances.”
An act of urination.
One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
An outhole.
A drink.
“When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"”
“What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.”

verb

To lose liquid.
“The clogged sink drained slowly.”
“Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.”
To flow gradually.
“The water of low ground drains off.”
To cause liquid to flow out of.
“Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.”
To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
“They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.”
To deplete of energy or resources.
“The stress of this job is really draining me.”
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
“Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.”
“At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.”
To filter.
“Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.”
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.”
To drink.
“But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.”
To make a shot.