What is another word for draining?
372 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dɹˈe͡ɪnɪŋ], [ dɹˈeɪnɪŋ], [ d_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for draining:- all (adjective)
- exhausting (adjective)
- pouring (adjective)
- ruinous (adjective)
- wearying (adjective)
- debilitating (noun)
- evacuation (noun)
- refinement (noun)
- decreasing (verb)
- diminishing (verb)
- drying (verb)
- enervating (verb)
- exiting (verb)
- rejecting (verb)
- other synonyms
- bloodletting
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Draining:
adj.
•all (adjective) •exhausting (adjective) •pouring (adjective) •ruinous (adjective) •wearying (adjective)n.
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- tired.
v.
•decreasing (verb)- dwindling,
- receding,
- eroding,
- lessening,
- lowering,
- dying down,
- decreasing,
- Truncating,
- abating,
- Concentrating,
- contracting,
- Abridging,
- Depleting,
- subsiding,
- Abbreviating,
- Deducting,
- shortening,
- deflating,
- decrementing,
- compressing,
- shrinking,
- diminishing,
- Compacting.
- shaving,
- tapering,
- reducing,
- nipping,
- downgrading,
- minimizing,
- pruning,
- lightening,
- trimming,
- Bobbing,
- condensing,
- Weeding,
- paring.
- emptying,
- pumping out,
- Evaporating,
- Desiccating,
- Parching,
- mopping,
- dehumidifying,
- Catheterizing,
- withering,
- Blotting,
- Stanching,
- Wiping,
- dehydrating,
- Vaporizing,
- sucking dry,
- wringing out,
- Drying,
- swabbing.
- shedding,
- seeping,
- Secreting,
- erupting,
- Checking,
- barring,
- Ejecting,
- Trashing,
- Sniping,
- Lopping,
- belching,
- junking,
- Eliminating,
- shearing,
- Discharging,
- vomiting,
- Culling,
- Evacuating,
- Cropping,
- Curtailing,
- clipping,
- excreting,
- Spewing,
- Rejecting,
- venting,
- emitting,
- jettisoning,
- exuding,
- Disclaiming,
- Chopping,
- Blackballing,
- Denying,
- disapproving,
- Discarding,
- Abandoning,
- Jilting,
- blacklisting,
- cutting,
- Disgorging,
- Excluding,
- Excising,
- deep-sixing,
- Ejaculating,
- Oppugning,
- Disallowing.
Other synonyms:
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- Milking.
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- drain.
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- ruinous.
- drooping,
- enfeebling,
- absorb,
- back-breaking,
- loud,
- sidesplitting,
- erase,
- degenerate,
- effete,
- nervous exhaustion,
- drawing forth,
- Trickling,
- nicety,
- declining,
- irritating,
- trickle,
- decrement,
- fading,
- release,
- expend,
- extravasation,
- culture,
- onerous,
- Elutriation,
- pining,
- nervous prostration,
- difficult,
- draining away,
- pressing,
- weaken,
- retrogressive,
- persistent,
- eliminate,
- eradicate,
- elegance,
- waning,
- sliding,
- exasperating,
- tiresome,
- decrease,
- clearance,
- wearisome,
- extinguish,
- delicacy,
- transudation,
- leaking,
- outflow,
- siphoning,
- excreta,
- finishing,
- collapse,
- cupping,
- escape,
- tumbledown,
- bleeding,
- Furrowing,
- falling,
- Irksome,
- clearing,
- instant,
- dropping,
- drawing out,
- efface,
- cracking,
- secretion,
- cloaca,
- Shriveling,
- straining,
- grooving,
- stressful,
- Channelling,
- strenuous,
- worsening,
- go,
- dripping,
- punishing,
- use up,
- engross,
- pouring,
- exigent,
- clamorous,
- deteriorating,
- cleaning out,
- failing,
- extravasate,
- civilization,
- taxing,
- voidance,
- clamant,
- Effluxion,
- seepage,
- gentility,
- exacting,
- flowing,
- exudation,
- coming apart,
- egress,
- Slumping,
- Channeling,
- grace,
- insistent,
- weary,
- venesection,
- Languishing,
- guttering,
- exorbitant,
- Ditching,
- dissipate,
- transudate,
- Trenching,
- vexing,
- efflux,
- dribbling,
- drawing,
- oozing,
- weakening,
- eat on,
- outpouring,
- hard,
- decrements,
- fragmenting,
- tedious,
- urgent,
- eat up,
- burdensome,
- Drainer,
- unloading,
- slipping,
- very funny,
- regressive,
- consumption,
- eat,
- bloodletting,
- elaboration,
- exhaust,
- tough,
- grueling,
- emanation,
- carry off,
- retrograde,
- decadent,
- run out,
- extortionate,
- Disintegrating,
- off-loading,
- crying,
- aspiration,
- waste,
- deplete,
- Bolting,
- devour,
- running,
- sinking,
- drafting,
- generation,
- Marcescent,
- politeness,
- elimination,
- streaming,
- trying,
- boring,
- killing,
- expiring,
- colander,
- effluence,
- grasping,
- Weariful,
- finish,
- drainage,
- tiring,
- carrier,
- corrode,
- sucking,
- run through,
- excretion,
- arduous,
- emission,
- demanding,
- depletion,
- moating,
- breakdown,
- consuming,
- Gullying,
- courtesy,
- gruelling,
- Tabetic,
- Broaching,
- consume,
- flagging,
- exhaustion,
- take,
- scuppering,
- cultivation,
- discharge,
- reduce,
- lose,
- squander,
- wasting,
- drip,
- leak,
- defecation,
- crack-up,
- Filtering,
- suction,
- ebbing,
- prostration,
- voiding,
- leakage,
- importunate,
- laborious,
- spend,
- toilsome,
- wilting,
- Emanating,
- drop,
- swallow up,
- Crumbling,
- pertinacious,
- Pumping,
- annoying,
- burn up.
Paraphrases for Draining:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
drain.
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Noun, singular or mass
drain.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
drains.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
Evacuating, evacuation.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
straining, Dredging, Discharging, Removing, absorbing, Sterilizing, Channelling, Depriving, dwindling, Disposing, expausting, flowing, exhausting, Depleting, Transporting, Undergoing, exploding, ranking, tiring, purging, finishing, serving, emitting, Balling, eating, Drying.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
Doing.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, plural
drainages.
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Noun, singular or mass
dewatering, Drying.
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Noun, plural
Antonyms for Draining:
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p. pr. & vb. n.
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Other antonyms:
invigorating.
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Other antonyms:
Homophones for Draining:
- dermic, drainage, dairying, dromaius, drawing, dreariness, dithering, diadromous, dreaminess, deterrence, droning, DRMS, determining, dryness, daydreaming, dude ranch, daring, dormancy, drink, darning, drench, doddering, dearness, durango, deer mouse, derange, drunk, durance, dormouse, drimys, drumming, dermis, dreaming.
