Definition of Drained
Adjective: drained dreynd
- 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"
- [Brit] Very tired
- knackered [Brit], shagged out [Brit], shagged [Brit], zonked [Brit], zonked out [Brit], stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ], shattered [Brit]
- Drained of electric charge; discharged
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained";
- dead, flat [Brit]
- Flow off gradually
"The rain water drains into this big vat";
- run out
- Deplete of resources
"The exercise class drains me of energy"
- Empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
"We drained the oil tank"
- Make weak
"Life in the camp drained him";
- enfeeble, debilitate
See also:
drainboard
drainer
Anagrams containing the word drained