1 to make sth empty or dry by removing all the liquid from it; to become empty or dry in this way:
[VN] Drain and rinse the pasta. * The marshes have been drained. * You will need to drain the central heating system before you replace the radiator. * [V] The swimming pool drains very slowly. * Leave the dishes to drain.
2 ~ (sth) (from / out of sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for drain is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is drain a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, drain is tagged as verb.
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