drain
verb (used with object)
to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration.
undrainable
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a word derived from
drain.
Example Sentences
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"Fagan, whom I regarded as an undrainable well of the precious metals, threatens to run dry; he sends me back bills unaccepted, and actually menaces me with a reckoning."
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
She to Paris made Proffer of royal power, ample rule Unquestion'd, overflowing revenue 110 Wherewith to embellish state, 'from many a vale And river-sunder'd champaign cloth'd with corn, Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
But, as thou hast protested, we will confer of these doubts together, and will seek out the resolution, even unto the bottom of that undrainable well where Heraclitus says the truth lies hidden.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Perhaps the most hopeless area of undrainable bog in Ireland lies in Western and North-Western Mayo.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart
She to Paris made Proffer of royal power, ample rule Unquestion'd, overflowing revenue Wherewith to embellish state, 'from many a vale And river-sunder'd champaign clothed with corn, Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore.
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by John Churton Collins
