"draining" meaning in English

See draining in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/ Forms: more draining [comparative], most draining [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} draining (comparative more draining, superlative most draining)
  1. (not comparable) Designed and/or used for drainage. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-draining-en-adj-Wuyv19Jt
  2. (comparable) Causing a depletion of energy or resources; exhausting. Tags: comparable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: drainingly, lifedraining, nondraining

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/ Forms: drainings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} draining (countable and uncountable, plural drainings)
  1. (uncountable) The practice of exploring drains, tunnels, or sewers. Tags: uncountable Translations (Translations): Austrocknung [feminine] (German), Entwässerung [feminine] (German), Trockenlegunung [feminine] (German), akıtma (Turkish), süzdürme (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-draining-en-noun-G8U6lLbS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 31 33 26 5 1 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 27 29 26 7 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 29 31 26 5 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 30 33 28 3 1 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 8 27 30 25 7 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 7 27 33 24 6 3 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 56 43 1
  2. (countable) The process by which something is drained or emptied. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-draining-en-noun-dhS-bZKZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 31 33 26 5 1 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 27 29 26 7 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 29 31 26 5 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 30 33 28 3 1 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 8 27 30 25 7 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 7 27 33 24 6 3
  3. (countable, usually in the plural) The liquid drained from something. Tags: countable, plural-normally
    Sense id: en-draining-en-noun-WlFduHeA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: draining board

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} draining
  1. present participle and gerund of drain Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: drain
    Sense id: en-draining-en-verb-cXS8onja

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.