Drains is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRAINS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DRAIN, to draw off a liquid
• cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry
• cause or allow (liquid) to run off or out of something
• make (land) drier by providing channels for water to flow away in
• (of a river) carry off the superfluous water from (an area)
• (of water or another liquid) flow away from, out of, or into something
• become dry or drier as liquid runs off or away
• drink the entire contents of (a glass or other container)
• (of a feeling or emotion) become progressively less strongly felt
• deprive of strength or vitality
• cause (a valuable resource) to be lost or used up
• (of a valuable resource) be lost or used up
• (of a player) hole (a putt)
NOUN:
• a channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.
• a frame of metal bars set in a road over the opening to a rainwater channel.
• a tube for drawing off accumulating fluid from a body cavity or an abscess.
• the part of a field-effect transistor to which the charge carriers flow after passing the gate.
• a thing that uses up a particular resource
• the continuous loss or expenditure of a particular resource

Words related to DRAINS

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How to use DRAINS in a sentence

• Happy in comparison he who drains the fourth, for he sinks dead upon the ground immediately, smitten as it were with lightning.
• By means of its winding course it measures fully a thousand miles in Idaho alone, and drains about two-thirds of the State.
• The other Allies can do little without the assistance of England, and our finances are by no means in a state to bear such intolerable drains.
• Our water-supply came, on a truly hygienic plan, from wells beneath the building, whilst we were entirely free from any worry about drains.
• Drains are a very important question there at present.
• Stobell was discoursing, almost eloquently for him, upon drains.
• Fit only to be working in drains and ditches in the winter.
• Drains are introduced to carry off moisture, which must otherwise have been very destructive to buildings composed mainly, or entirely, of crude brick.
• It drains a considerable portion of the land of Gilead, but has no very remote sources, and in summer only carries water through a few miles of its lower course.
• Surface and open-ditch drains take only surface water.
• Brick Drains Three brick drains, buried beneath the humus line, are identified with 17th-century houses.
• This arrangement is based on the principle that there should be no deposit in the house drains.
• Dare might like to put a little of his private fortune into the cottages and the drains and the new pumps? Dare winced.
• The dwellings were but half-finished, the drains were open ditches, and the rains descended and the floods came as usual.
• The question has been raised as to whether the roots of the plants will be much liable to enter and choke the drains at the joints between the tiles.
• Not, however, being confident as to the soil having already become so porous as to dispense entirely with surface drains, Mr.
• With badly constructed drains, on the other hand, the case is quite different.
• It drains the warm blood from the heart, and dries all the sweet, fragrant dew out of the spirit.
• They are distinguished by great elegance of design, infinite variety in furniture, and entire absence of drains.
• She said the first thing would be to have the drains inspected, and that if there was any hurry the surveyors ought to be instructed instantly.
• Another great evil in house construction is carrying drains underneath the house.
• Stagnant water they consider very injurious to the cane, and on the drains being well contrived depends in a great measure the future hope of profit.
• There are four pumps on the premises, and the floor of the interior is so contrived and fitted up with proper drains, that it can be washed down at pleasure.
• Presently comes another destroyer of peace, less idle and more enterprising, and drains away the water, carp and all, and makes a potato-garden of his old haunts.
• This river drains the territory occupied by the Company of the same name and we turn up it to visit Hambi, the chief town.

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