drain
verb (used with object)
to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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“My life will be draining away and Russia will return me to Ukraine in any case – it will return me, dead or alive,” she wrote in the statement.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2016