dead, drained
(adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged; “a dead battery”; “left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained”
drained
(adjective) emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); “a drained marsh”; “a drained tank”; “a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything”
knackered, drained
(adjective) very tired
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drained (comparative more drained, superlative most drained)
Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.
• See also fatigued
drained
simple past tense and past participle of drain
• dandier, indread, nadired
Source: Wiktionary
Drain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drained; p. pr. & vb. n. Draining.] Etym: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley.
2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. Roscommon.
3. To filter. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon.
Drain, v. i.
1. To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
2. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
Drain, n.
1. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
2. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
3. pl.
Definition: The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter.
– Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2024
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; “a parade of strollers on the mall”; “a parade of witnesses”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
