Drain

Definition

drain /dreÇn/ n ၁။ [C] ေရေျမာင္း။ ေရႁပြန္။ We had to call in a plumber to unblock the drains. ၂။ [C] ( US ) = PLUG-HOLE ၃။ [sing] ~ on sb/sth ျပဳန္းတီးမႈ။ ယိုေပါက္။ Military spending is a huge drain on the country's resources. v ၁။ ~ (sth) (from sth); ~ (sth) (away/off) စီးဆင္းသြား သည္။ ေဖာက္ထုတ္သည္။ ဆုတ္သြားသည္။ All the blood drained from his face (eg on hearing bad news). ❍ The bath-water slowly drained away. ❍ A mechanic drained (the oil from) the engine. ၂။ (က) ေရစင္ေအာင္ စစ္ထားသည္။ Leave the dishes to drain. (ခ) ေျမာင္းေဖာက္၍ ေရစစ္ထုတ္ သည္။ ေရေဖာက္ထုတ္သည္။ drain swamps/marshes ❍ good, well-drained soil/land. ၃။ ဖန္ခြက္ကို ေျပာင္ေအာင္ ေမာ့ခ်သည္။ drain one's glass (dry). ၄။ ~ sb/sth (of sth) (ေငြ၊ အင္အားစသည္) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ဆုတ္ယုတ္သည္၊ ကုန္ခန္း သည္။ feel drained of energy ❍ The experience left her emotionally drained. ❏ (go) down the drain [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလဟႆ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ A single mistake, and all that time and money would go down the drain. See also BRAIN DRAIN ❏ drain away [ PHRV ] တျဖည္းျဖည္း လံုးပါးပါးသည္။ Her life was slowly draining away (ie She was slowly dying). ❏ draining-board ( US drainboard ) n ပန္းကန္ေဆးကန္ ေဘးရိွ ပန္းကန္ေရစစ္စင္။

Examples

1. When the pasta is cooked
2. drain it and serve immediately.
3. All water tanks and pipes should be drained.
4. [drain something from something] : Drain all the syrup from the tins.
5. [drain away/off] : Put the steaks on a rack to let the fat drain off.
6. Rainwater causes flooding when it can’t drain away.
7. The marshes have now been completely drained.
8. They all rose and drained their glasses.
9. Fighting legal battles is draining the company’s resources.