Synonyms of the word

drain

• n. A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage)…
• n. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
• n. (vulgar) An act of urination.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• n. (pinball) An outhole.
• v. (intransitive) To lose liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To flow gradually.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
• v. (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
• v. (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
• v. (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

debilitate

• v. To make feeble; to weaken.

deplete

• v. To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
• v. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or…

depletion

• n. the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.
• n. the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.

drainage

• n. A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
• n. A system of drains.

drainpipe

• n. A pipe connecting the drain to the gutter.

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

empty

• adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
• adj. (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having…
• adj. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
• adj. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
• adj. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
• adj. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
• adj. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
• adj. (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
• adj. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
• v. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
• n. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

emptying

• v. present participle of empty.
• n. The act by which something is emptied.

enfeeble

• v. (transitive) To make feeble.

evacuation

• n. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
• n. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
• n. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also,…
• n. The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection.
• n. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
• n. Abolition; nullification.

exhaust

• v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
• v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
• v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
• v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
• n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
• n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
• n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
• n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
• n. exhaust gas.
• adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

pipage

• n. Plumbing, a system of pipes.
• n. A charge made for piping a fluid from one place to another.

pipe

• n. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
• n. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
• n. Meanings relating to a container.
• n. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
• n. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
• n. Meanings relating to computing.
• v. (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
• v. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
• v. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
• v. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
• v. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
• v. (transitive) To decorate with piping.
• v. (transitive) To dab away moisture from.
• v. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To see.

piping

• v. present participle of pipe.
• n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
• n. The sound of musical pipes.
• n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
• n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
• n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
• n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
• n. Piped icing on a cake.
• n. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
• n. (botany) propagation by cuttings.
• adj. High-pitched.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

tube

• n. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
• n. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and…
• n. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred…
• n. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).
• n. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
• v. To make or use tubes.

tubing

• n. tubes, considered as a group.
• n. a length of tube, or a system of tubes.
• n. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube.
• v. present participle of tube.

voidance

• n. The act of voiding, of defecating or removing.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.