Draining Synonyms and Antonyms

Causing fatigue
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. exhausting
  2. fatiguing
  3. tiring
  4. wearing
  5. wearying
Seep, discharge liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dumping
  2. spending
  3. finishing
  4. expending
  5. pouring
  6. exhausting
  7. consuming
Antonyms:
  1. filling
  2. pouring
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To lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essential
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sapping
  2. impoverishing
  3. exhausting
  4. depleting
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To cause (a resource or supply of something) to be used up gradually and often completely.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. depleting

Words Related to Draining

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Draining Sentence Examples

  • Cassie could feel the color draining from her face.

  • Lisa stared up at him, the blood draining from her face.

  • Since 1884 the Italian Government have been systematically enclosing, pumping dry, and generally draining the marshes of the Agro Romano, that is, the tracts around Ostia; the Isola Sacra, at the mouth of the Tiber; and Maccarese.

  • In the hands of able captains, like Francesco Sforza or Piccinino, these mercenary troops became moving despotisms, draining the country of its wealth, and always eager to fasten and found tyrannies upon the provinces they had been summoned to defend.

  • Both draining and irrigation are noticed, though the latter but slightly.

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