drain

drain
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. draw off, empty, exhaust, leak, drip, dry up. —n. outlet, spout, sewer, ditch, gutter. See water, use, dryness, egress, waste, cleanness.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A pipe or conduit]
Syn. duct, channel, sewer; see conduit , pipe 1 .
2. [A gradual reduction]
Syn. exhaustion, depletion, draining, strain; see consumption 1 , waste 1 .
• down the drain *,
Syn. wasted, ruined, gone; see lost 1 , wasted .
v.
1. [To withdraw fluid]
Syn. divert, bleed, milk, tap, draw off, drink, remove, evaporate, catheterize; see also empty 2 .
2. [To withdraw strength]
Syn. exhaust, empty, consume, weary, tire out, expend, sap, dissipate, waste, tax, deplete, impoverish, get rid of, free from, bleed, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, reduce, filter off, remove, milk*; see also spend 1 , tire 2 , weaken 2 .
Ant. revive*, refresh, replenish.
3. [To seep away]
Syn. run out, run off, flow off, flow out, seep off, seep out, exude, trickle out, filter off, ooze, percolate, effuse, find an opening, osmose, decline, diminish, leave dry; see also flow 1 , 2 .
4. [To empty]
Syn. pour, bail out, dump; see empty 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
outlet, conduit, channel, pipe, sewer, watercourse, plumbing.
II
v.
1. draw empty, bleed, pump out, withdraw, remove, siphon, tap, broach, milk, release, discharge, filter, flush.
2. use up exhaust, expend, suck dry, consume, deplete, tax, sap, bleed dry.
ANT.: fill, replenish
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To remove (a liquid) by a steady, gradual process: draw (off), let out, pump, tap2. See INCREASE. 2. To grow or cause to grow gradually less: abate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, peter (out), rebate, reduce, tail away (or off), taper (off). See INCREASE. 3. To lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essential: deplete, exhaust, impoverish, sap2, use up. See GIVE, INCREASE, RICH. 4. To use all of: consume, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. Informal: polish off. See INCREASE. 5. To diminish the strength and energy of: fatigue, jade, tire, wear, wear down, wear out, weary. See TIRED. II noun The act or process of decreasing: abatement, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, reduction, slash, slowdown, taper. See INCREASE.

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