Crossword-Solution: DRAINAGE 8 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Drainage n. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also,
that which flows out of a drain.
Drainage n. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its
streams and rivers.
Drainage n. The system of drains and their operation, by which
superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other
works.
Drainage n. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the
Thames, etc.
Drainage n. The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or
fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

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DRAINAGE anagram GARDENIA

We have 52 clues for the answer “DRAINAGE”

Clue Answers
Kind of ditch 1 answer
Ditch purpose 1 answer
Culvert's purpose 1 answer
Construction site concern 1 answer
Anagram for gardenia 1 answer
Ditch's purpose 1 answer
Gutters' purpose 1 answer
It's poor on the moor 1 answer
One concern of the E.P.A. 1 answer
Outflow of water 1 answer
Possible land problem 1 answer
Removal of surplus water 1 answer
Sump pump's purpose 1 answer
washing out 1 answer
system that allows water to disperse 1 answer
What a waste pipe provides 1 answer
Type of basin 1 answer
Sump pump's job 1 answer
DITCHWATER 2 answers
System of conduits. 2 answers
Civil engineer's concern 2 answers
Type of ditch 2 answers
Sanitation 3 answers
dehydration 3 answers
running sore 4 answers
voidance 4 answers
desiccation 5 answers
plumbing 5 answers
DIMINISHING returns 5 answers
sewage 6 answers
Watershed 7 answers
seepage 10 answers
Farmer's concern 10 answers
wastefulness 18 answers
leakage 18 answers
sweating 18 answers
extravagance 22 answers
Effusion 26 answers
outflow 33 answers
dispersion 33 answers
extravasation 44 answers
BASIN ___ 49 answers
draining 53 answers
Outlet 55 answers
exhaustion 57 answers
Expenditure 57 answers
Grime 61 answers
DIRT ___ 65 answers
Forfeit 65 answers
forfeiture 68 answers
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Sentences with DRAINAGE (5)

Four years ago he had been called to Japan to deliver, at the Emperor’s request, a course of lectures at the Imperial University, and had instituted reforms throughout the islands, not only in the practice of bridge-building but in drainage and road-making.
Alexander’s Bridge and The Barrel Organ Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 1993
There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Lapham entered into the particulars of closets, drainage, kitchen arrangements, and all that, and came back to the table.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
The object is not only to cultivate the land in a way to make it pay our boarding department, but at the same time to teach the students, in addition to the practical work, something of the chemistry of the soil, the best methods of drainage, dairying, the cultivation of fruit, the care of livestock and tools, and scores of other lessons needed by a people whose main dependence is on agriculture.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
The drainage-ditches were everywhere alive with little crabs--'fiddlers.' One saw them scampering sidewise in every direction whenever they heard a disturbing noise.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with DRAINAGE (3)

Christ. No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.
Stephen King Pet Sematary
Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road." So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.
John Flanagan Halt's Peril
Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were.
James S.A. Corey Leviathan Wakes
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).