noun
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the process or a method of draining
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a system of watercourses or drains
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liquid, sewage, etc, that is drained away
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“The landscape replaced an asphalt parking lot and is built on top of an underground parking structure, which limits soil depth, weight and drainage and shaped which plants could thrive there,” a museum spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s become a battle in which the weapons are sandbags, water pumps, sand berms and drainage canals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Experts say years of deforestation and peatland drainage in Indonesia have made it more vulnerable to fires during dry periods.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The threat comes from both rivers and the sea, while surface water flooding - where local drainage systems become overwhelmed during heavy downpours - is seen as an increasing danger.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Then, using a wooden blade, he scored the surface of the clay in the drainage bed so it would dry faster.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
As these sudden drainages took place, the glacier surface began to fracture in unexpected ways.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
“Mud, rock and debris flows will have the potential to impact drainages, roads and residences in and directly below the burn area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Ghuge, the manager at Ola's Thane workshop, said reported service issues included battery drainages, software glitches and damaged wires.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023
It cites environmental concerns associated with the construction, claiming Arizona has "cut down and removed scores of trees, clogged drainages, and degraded the habitat of species listed under the Endangered Species Act".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
In Utah, populations of sirtalis occur in the drainages of the Bear, Weber and Sevier rivers and other smaller streams of the western half of the state.
From Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Henry S. Fitch
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