DRAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drained mean? 

• DRAINED (adjective)
  The adjective DRAINED has 3 senses:

1. emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)

2. very tired

3. drained of electric charge; discharged

  Familiarity information: DRAINED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)

Context example:

a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything

Similar:

empty (emptied of emotion)

exhausted (drained physically)

Antonym:

undrained (not drained)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very tired

Synonyms:

drained; knackered

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Drained of electric charge; discharged

Synonyms:

dead; drained

Context example:

left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained

Similar:

uncharged (of a particle or body or system; having no charge)

 Context examples 

The perennial whiskey glass was in his hands, and he drained it with shaking fingers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a smiling face and a heart of marble, he will squeeze and squeeze until he has drained them dry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white jerkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you feel drained after a cold because of your chest trouble?

(AQ20 - Feel Drained After a Cold Because of Chest Trouble, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of euthanasia whereby a subject inhales carbon dioxide until asphyxiation occurs and then the body is immediately drained of blood.

(Carbon Dioxide and Exsanguination Euthanasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of euthanization whereby a subject is anesthetized and the body is drained of blood.

(Anesthesia and Exsanguination Euthanasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source—the evil of suspense.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I fell asleep on the sofa, however, wondering over and over again how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign anywhere to show for it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St. Paul's Cathedral looking older.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It is ill weather for bows,” remarked John at last, when, with a long sigh, he drained the last drop from his helmet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)