Antonyms for drain
dreɪndrain

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1. drainverb

   Antonyms:
   replenish, fill, supply, pour, moisten, drown, inundate, drench, swill

   Synonyms:
   draw, strain, drip, percolate, drop, exhaust, empty, dry

Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Empty
   • Emptying
   • Surgery
   • Tube
   • Weaken

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1. drain, drainagenoun

   emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

   Synonyms:
   drainpipe, waste pipe, drainage

2. drainnoun

   tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material

   Synonyms:
   drainpipe, waste pipe, drainage

3. drain, drainpipe, waste pipenoun

   a pipe through which liquid is carried away

   Synonyms:
   drainpipe, waste pipe, drainage

4. drainverb

   a gradual depletion of energy or resources

   "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"

   Synonyms:
   drainpipe, waste pipe, drainage

5. drain, run outverb

   flow off gradually

   "The rain water drains into this big vat"

   Synonyms:
   bolt, bolt out, give out, fail, peter out, run off, poop out, run down, conk out, beetle off, debilitate, run out, spill, enfeeble, expire

6. drainverb

   deplete of resources

   "The exercise class drains me of energy"

   Synonyms:
   run out, debilitate, enfeeble

7. drainverb

   empty of liquid; drain the liquid from

   "We drained the oil tank"

   Synonyms:
   run out, debilitate, enfeeble

8. enfeeble, debilitate, drainverb

   make weak

   "Life in the camp drained him"

   Synonyms:
   run out, debilitate, enfeeble

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1. drainnoun

   Synonyms:
   channel, gutter, trench, ditch, sewer

2. drainverb

   Synonyms:
   empty, exhaust, deplete, filter

How to use drain in a sentence?

1. Enid Bagnold:

   Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

2. Herbert Karugaba:

   It's money down the drain, it is the quality of the man and woman in uniform... that matters.

3. Nawaf Al Qinae:

   The device is actually useful as we spent almost four hours on beachfront today and that's enough to drain my battery.

4. Maine Gov. Paul LePage:

   Beyond the health effects of the federal government’s corrupt food stamp policy is the tragedy of billions in wasted taxpayer dollars that buy candy and soda through a program that was originally designed to reduce hunger. Maine taxpayers see it every day at the grocery store and they are sick and tired of watching their hard-earned money go down the drain.

5. Don Blankenship:

   He will learn a lesson if I win, you shouldn't blindly go out and endorse or cast doubts or favoritism on anybody unless you actually look at their record and not depend on the people who are running the swamp you are trying to drain.

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