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Drains
- noun - a gradual depletion of energy or resources; "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
- deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"
- empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat"
- make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
- tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
Drakes
- noun - adult male of a wild or domestic duck
- English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Dramas
- noun - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
- an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
- the literary genre of works intended for the theater
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
Drapes
- noun - a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
- arrange in a particular way; "drape a cloth"
- cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"
- cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet"
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa"
- the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt"
Drawls
- noun - a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
- lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"
Dreads
- noun - be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;
- fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Dreams
- noun - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
- experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
- someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
Drecks
- noun - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
Driers
- noun - a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
- an appliance that removes moisture
Drifts
- noun - a force that moves something along
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
- be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
- cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
- drive slowly and far afield for