drained

Divided and drained by war, Syrian Christians are determined to celebrate for the first time in four years.

He drained the wine from the tumbler and turned away from the window, and there was no self-pity in his gravelly voice.

And the medications were sold to the government at huge mark-ups that drained the health care budget.

Resources are being drained from all parties, and in the end, no one wins—especially children.

At the moment they look like dirt-caked kiddie pools, long-drained.

On this account, great care should be taken to provide well-drained positions.

The pool was drained in 1866, and, having been filled up, its site will ere long be covered with streets of houses.

The bed should be drained by a little ditch around it on the upper side.

It is very probable, indeed, that in twenty thousand years the waters of that basin will be to a great extent drained away.

Perhaps he had waited too long for the simple breakfast; perhaps the recent glory had drained him of vital force.