Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people.
- adjective having resources completely depleted.
- adjective having no power remaining; -- of a battery.
- adjective to vanish or cease existing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking motivation and energy; very
tired ;knackered . - adjective Of a battery, empty of
charge ;discharged . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
drain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective drained of electric charge; discharged
- adjective very tired
- adjective emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)
Etymologies
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Examples
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BUT the expression drained from her face, her heart crumpling as she saw what he held in his hand, at the hard set of his jaw.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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Our brains were drained from the communities that raised us by promises of resumes paved with gold — and we mean to get that gold by hook or crook.
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And the first resource that's been drained is our military personnel, who have spent the past decade on long, backbreaking deployments.
David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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With the tub between them, they proceeded to carry it to one side in order to dump it where the ground drained from the cabin.
CHAPTER 22 2010
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I second this policy (control low-skill immigration and go wild with high-skill), but educated Mexicans should not be preferred over all the brains that could be drained from the developing world.
Tyler Cowen on Mexican Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Supply-side economics ALWAYS slows down the economy because the money is drained from the people that spend money that drive the economy.
Think Progress » Scott Brown Claims That The Stimulus Has Not Created ‘One New Job’ 2010
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The Sierra Nevada range is the backbone of our state and when the snows are shallow our valley rivers suffer as well, water has to be drained from the storage facilities for crops and cities, little is considered for the wildlife.
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And the first resource that's been drained is our military personnel, who have spent the past decade on long, backbreaking deployments.
David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency Jason Linkins 2010
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The Sierra Nevada range is the backbone of our state and when the snows are shallow our valley rivers suffer as well, water has to be drained from the storage facilities for crops and cities, little is considered for the wildlife.
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And the first resource that's been drained is our military personnel, who have spent the past decade on long, backbreaking deployments.
David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency Jason Linkins 2010
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