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Drained

of Drain

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Empty 84% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Exhausted 84% connected

of Exhaust

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Exhausted 84% connected

of Exhaust

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Tired 84% connected

of Tire

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Tired 84% connected

of Tire

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Dead 92% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Banker noun · 78% connection

A ditcher; a drain digger.

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Barrow noun · 78% connection

A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

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Carouse verb · 78% connection

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

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Catchdrain noun · 78% connection

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

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Catchwater noun · 78% connection

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

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Cesspool noun · 78% connection

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle o…

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Chase noun · 78% connection

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

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Culvert noun · 78% connection

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

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Cunette noun · 78% connection

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

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Delph noun · 78% connection

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

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Dike verb · 78% connection

To drain by a dike or ditch.

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Ditch verb · 78% connection

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

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Drain noun · 78% connection

a gradual depletion of energy or resources; "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"

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Drainage noun · 78% connection

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

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Draining p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Drain

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Draught noun · 78% connection

A sink or drain; a privy.

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Draw verb · 78% connection

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

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Drein verb · 78% connection

To drain.

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