Usually means: Remove liquid from a container.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. drain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drain, drain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drain, drain: Wordnik
  7. drain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Drain: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Drain, drain: Wiktionary
  10. drain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. drain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. drain: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. drain: Dictionary.com
  14. drain (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. drain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Drain (band), Drain (comics), Drain (plumbing), Drain (surgery), Drain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Drain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. drain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. drain: Rhymezone
  20. drain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. drain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. drain: Free Dictionary
  23. drain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. drain: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. drain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. drain: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drain: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. drain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Drain: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. drain: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. drain: Medical dictionary
  6. Drain: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. drain: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drain, drain, drain, drain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Drain, drain: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drain: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. drain: Canadian Soil Information System
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
noun:  (chiefly UK) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
noun:  A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
noun:  Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
noun:  (vulgar) An act of urination.
noun:  (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
noun:  (pinball) An outhole.
noun:  (UK, slang, dated) A drink.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow gradually.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
verb:  (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
verb:  (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
verb:  (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
verb:  (slang, archaic, transitive) To drink.
verb:  (transitive, basketball, slang) To make a shot.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

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