Definitions for drainage

drainage drain·age

Spelling: [drey-nij]
IPA: /ˈdreɪ nɪdʒ/

Drainage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in drainage (aadeginr).

Definitions for drainage

noun

  1. the act or process of draining.
  2. a system of drains, artificial or natural.
  3. drainage basin.
  4. something that is drained off.
  5. Surgery. the drainage of fluids, as bile, urine, etc., from the body, or of pus and other diseased products from a wound.

Origin of drainage

First recorded in 1645-55; drain + -age

Examples for drainage

Sin City has no jobs, and the newly homeless are living in drainage pipes.

A complete system of drainage is needed to render the work complete.

During a morning press conference, Dormer said he believed that Gilbert most likely fell into a drainage ditch and drowned.

In order to guard against this mistake, have faith in drainage.

German planes landed in New Orleans to deliver food rations, as well as a team of drainage specialists.

A similar statement may be made with reference to drainage mistakes.

Sixteen days later, his severed head was found in a drainage ditch miles from their home.

It would only be a few more months before his boss Muammar would be shot while attempting to escape through a drainage pipe.

But, as he turned, the drainage system that was robbing the field shut off.

Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, 137;from leachings from privies and cesspools, 138.

Word Value for drainage
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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