drained
IPA: drˈeɪnd
adjective
- Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
- Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.
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Examples of "drained" in Sentences
- The water drained away in the nick of time.
- The pulp is then saturated in water and drained.
- They thrive in well drained soils rich in organic matter.
- The ice machine didn't refrigerate the ice, just drained the water.
- At this time, the reservoir is drained through the hot water faucet.
- BUT the expression drained from her face, her heart crumpling as she saw what he held in his hand, at the hard set of his jaw.
- With the tub between them, they proceeded to carry it to one side in order to dump it where the ground drained from the cabin.
- And the first resource that's been drained is our military personnel, who have spent the past decade on long, backbreaking deployments.
- Supply-side economics ALWAYS slows down the economy because the money is drained from the people that spend money that drive the economy.
- Our brains were drained from the communities that raised us by promises of resumes paved with gold — and we mean to get that gold by hook or crook.
- I second this policy (control low-skill immigration and go wild with high-skill), but educated Mexicans should not be preferred over all the brains that could be drained from the developing world.
- The Sierra Nevada range is the backbone of our state and when the snows are shallow our valley rivers suffer as well, water has to be drained from the storage facilities for crops and cities, little is considered for the wildlife.
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