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the place where your dropped earrings go to start a new life without you
means To drain is to remove liquid from something gradually, or the channel or pipe that carries that liquid away — and by extension, to slowly empty something of its strength, money, or energy.
from From Old English 'dreahnian,' meaning to strain or filter off liquid, and ultimately a relative of 'dry' — the whole word family traces back to the idea of making something dry by drawing the wet away. So at its root, to drain is to dry out, one trickle at a time.
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- sewer gases kill workers faster than any drowning
- hair clogs
- shed strands tangle into surprisingly durable underground ropes
- P-trap genius
- that curved pipe blocks sewer stench with trapped water
the rhine delta drainage — dutch delta works system draining and reclaiming land since 1200s, including the zuiderzee works
mesopotamian marshes drainage — 1990s iraqi government drained 90% of historical marshes in southern iraq to suppress populations