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1. drained
adjective. ['ˈdreɪnd'] emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid).
Synonyms
Etymology
- -ed (English)
- -od (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- drain (English)
Rhymes with Drained
- unconstrained
- self-contained
- unrestrained
- unexplained
- preordained
- constrained
- restrained
- explained
- complained
- untrained
- unstained
- sustained
- retrained
- refrained
- maintained
- ingrained
- entertained
- disdained
- contained
- campaigned
- ascertained
- abstained
- strained
- sprained
- retained
- remained
- regained
- pertained
- ordained
- obtained
Sentences with drained
1. Verb, past participle
The tree tolerates any type of soil but does best in one that is fertile and well drained.
2. Adjective
Fill a 1/2-pint jar half full of drained pineapple pieces.
Quotes about drained
1. The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief of grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems
2. There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when she looks at me, it's a vacuum. I had drained so much from her over the course of our marriage that every glance rips a little bit of my soul away to fill the void I had whittled within her.
- Thomm Quackenbush, Of Christmas Present
2. drained
adjective. ['ˈdreɪnd'] drained of electric charge; discharged.
Synonyms
Etymology
- -ed (English)
- -od (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- drain (English)