From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drain \Drain\ (dr[=a]n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Drained} (dr[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Draining}.] [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. --Bacon.
But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. --Motley.
2. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main. --Roscommon.
3. To filter.
Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
drained \drained\ adjective having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people; as, the day's events left her completely drained of strength. [WordNet 1.5]
2. having resources completely depleted.
3. having no power remaining; -- of a battery.
1. to be consumed in profitless activity; to be wasted; to become worthless.
2. to vanish or cease existing. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything" [ant: {undrained}]
2: very tired [syn: {knackered}]
3: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: {dead}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "drained": ablated, acarpous, all in, arid, ausgespielt, barren, beat, beat up, beaten, blanched, bleached, bleached white, bone-weary, burned-out, burnt up, bushed, cachectic, celibate, childless, consumed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, debilitated, decolored, decolorized, depleted, desert, desolate, devitalized, disabled, dissipated, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained of color, dried-up, dry, eaten up, effete, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, exhausted, fagged out, failing, fallow, fatigued, feeble, finished, frail, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gone, healthless, impotent, impoverished, in poor health, incapacitated, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, issueless, jejune, knocked out, languishing, leached, lightened, menopausal, moribund, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pale, peaked, peaky, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sapped, sickly, sine prole, spent, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhealthy, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsound, unsown, untilled, used up, valetudinarian, valetudinary, virgin, washed-up, waste, wasted, weakened, weakly, weary unto death, whacked, whitened, wiped out, with low resistance, without issue, worn, worn away, worn-out
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