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# drain

«drain» in Mova's school dictionary: **to let water or another liquid flow out of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drain, drains, drained, draining); noun (a drain, drains)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drain is to let water or another liquid flow out of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#m1)

2) A drain is a pipe or hole that takes dirty water or rainwater away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#m2)

3) To drain something is to use it up slowly: «the game drained my phone battery». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#m3)

4) To feel drained is to feel very tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#m4)

5) «Down the drain» means wasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

water flowing out: litres per minute taken from a tank; in everyday life: drain the pasta, pull the plug and the bath drains; in science and the town: storm drains carry rainwater away; in safety: never play near storm drains, the water can be fast and deep; phrases: «down the drain», «brain drain»

### examples

- The tank drains 5 litres a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x1)
- How long to drain 60 litres? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x2)
- The bath drains in 10 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x3)
- One pipe fills while the other drains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x4)
- Drain the pasta in a colander. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x5)
- Leaves blocked the drain and the street flooded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x6)
- Never play near storm drains after rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x7)
- The long run left me completely drained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x8)
- All that money went down the drain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x9)
- Suddenly there appeared a great water-rat, who lived in the drain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/#x10)

### note

Takes away at a rate. Trap: fill and drain together: the change each minute is fill − drain. Time to drain = amount ÷ litres per minute (60 ÷ 5 = 12 minutes). Noun countable: a drain, drains.

### In the corpora

- [Burnout is exhaustion from too much stress for too long, usually from work; the person feels drained and cannot concentrate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/18/)
- [Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/6/)
- [A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/3/)
- [Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/2/)
- [Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.