Crossword-Solution: DRAIN 5 letters, 304 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Drain	v. t.	To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Drain	v. t.	To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
Drain	v. t.	To filter.
Drain	v. i.	To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
Drain	v. i.	To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
Drain	n.	The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
Drain	n.	That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Drain	n.	The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DRAIN	anagram	DARIN, DINAR, DRINA, INDRA, NADIR, RANDI, RANID, RINDA

We have 304 clues for the answer “DRAIN”

Clue	Answers
A trap is often found in one	1 answer
Backup site	1 answer
Bad place to pour grease	1 answer
Bath depleter	1 answer
Bathtub outlet	1 answer
Bathtub part	1 answer
CARRY off superfluous water	1 answer
CONSTANT outlet	1 answer
Center of a sink	1 answer
Channel or pipe	1 answer
Clog location	1 answer
Clog site	1 answer
Continuous outflow	1 answer
DRINK empty	1 answer
DRINK liquid empty	1 answer
Deplete of energy	1 answer
Down the __: lost	1 answer
Down the ___ (gone)	1 answer
Down the ___ (wasted)	1 answer
Draw water from	1 answer
Eddy creator	1 answer
Eddy locale	1 answer
Eddy site	1 answer
Emotionally tax	1 answer
Empty fully	1 answer
Empty of resources.	1 answer
Empty slowly	1 answer
Empty, as a sink	1 answer
Exhaust physically	1 answer
Exhaust(5)	1 answer
Exhaust, as strength	1 answer
FLOW gradually away	1 answer
Flow off gradually.	1 answer
Free of fluid	1 answer
Gradual outflow	1 answer
Gradually exhaust	1 answer
Hair collection spot in a tub	1 answer
Hole in a bathtub	1 answer
Hole in a sink	1 answer
Hole in a tub	1 answer
Household locale where the Coriolis effect is supposedly observed	1 answer
It can be clogged	1 answer
It empties a tub	1 answer
It might get clogged by hair	1 answer
Let out gradually	1 answer
Let the water out of	1 answer
Lose liquid	1 answer
Make as a long three	1 answer
Middle of a sink	1 answer
One may be snaked	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ACEORN

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Sentences with DRAIN (5)

The amount of sugar she used in these processes was sometimes a serious drain upon the family resources.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Woman, who like a viper unperceived Didst harbor in my house and drain my blood, Two plagues I nurtured blindly, so it proved, To sap my throne.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

His hope was that the drain on the slave system, coupled with the masters' fear of attack, would so strain the peculiar institution that, bit by bit, the South would be forced to negotiate some kind of settlement.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Behind my chair stood Sapt; and at the end of the table, I saw Fritz von Tarlenheim drain to the bottom his glass of champagne rather sooner than he decently should.

The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993

There seems to be a kind of a lull--kind of a dead calm, I call it--in the paint market just now; and then again a ten-hundred-thousand-dollar man don't build a hundred-thousand-dollar house without feeling the drain, unless there's a regular boom.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008

Quotes with DRAIN (3)

My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours

Charles Bukowski

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?""Because she loves you," said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

Cassandra Clare City of Bones

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

Jennifer Elisabeth Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 215 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).