drainer

English

Etymology

drain +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnə(r)

Noun

drainer (plural drainers)

1. That which drains.
   • 1999, Pai Obanya, The dilemma of education in Africa (page 175)

     The radical shift in mentality is even more necessary when analysts see Education simply as a drainer of resources.

   • 2003, Gail Waesche Kislevitz, The Spirit of the Marathon (page 78)

     I know that poor form is one of the biggest drainers of energy, so even though I slowed down significantly I made a very conscious effort to maintain good form.

2. A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally.
3. A person who explores drains, tunnels, or sewers.

Synonyms

(frame or rack for drying):

• draining board

Translations

frame or rack

• French: égouttoir (fr) m
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Anagrams

• Reinard, darrein, randier, redrain

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English drain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.ne/, /dʁe.ne/

• Audio:

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Verb

drainer

1. to drain
2. (figuratively) to drain

Conjugation

Conjugation of drainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	drainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	drainant /dʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /dʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		drainé /dʁɛ.ne/ or /dʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	draine /dʁɛn/	draines /dʁɛn/	draine /dʁɛn/	drainons /dʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /dʁe.nɔ̃/	drainez /dʁɛ.ne/ or /dʁe.ne/	drainent /dʁɛn/
	imperfect	drainais /dʁɛ.nɛ/ or /dʁe.nɛ/	drainais /dʁɛ.nɛ/ or /dʁe.nɛ/	drainait /dʁɛ.nɛ/ or /dʁe.nɛ/	drainions /dʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /dʁe.njɔ̃/	drainiez /dʁɛ.nje/ or /dʁe.nje/	drainaient /dʁɛ.nɛ/ or /dʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	drainai /dʁɛ.ne/ or /dʁe.ne/	drainas /dʁɛ.na/ or /dʁe.na/	draina /dʁɛ.na/ or /dʁe.na/	drainâmes /dʁɛ.nam/ or /dʁe.nam/	drainâtes /dʁɛ.nat/ or /dʁe.nat/	drainèrent /dʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /dʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	drainerai /dʁɛn.ʁe/	draineras /dʁɛn.ʁa/	drainera /dʁɛn.ʁa/	drainerons /dʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	drainerez /dʁɛn.ʁe/	draineront /dʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	drainerais /dʁɛn.ʁɛ/	drainerais /dʁɛn.ʁɛ/	drainerait /dʁɛn.ʁɛ/	drainerions /dʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	draineriez /dʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /dʁe.nə.ʁje/	draineraient /dʁɛn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	draine /dʁɛn/	draines /dʁɛn/	draine /dʁɛn/	drainions /dʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /dʁe.njɔ̃/	drainiez /dʁɛ.nje/ or /dʁe.nje/	drainent /dʁɛn/
	imperfect2	drainasse /dʁɛ.nas/ or /dʁe.nas/	drainasses /dʁɛ.nas/ or /dʁe.nas/	drainât /dʁɛ.na/ or /dʁe.na/	drainassions /dʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	drainassiez /dʁɛ.na.sje/ or /dʁe.na.sje/	drainassent /dʁɛ.nas/ or /dʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	draine /dʁɛn/	—	drainons /dʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /dʁe.nɔ̃/	drainez /dʁɛ.ne/ or /dʁe.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• Catalan: drenar
• Galician: drenar
• Italian: drenare
• Portuguese: drenar
• Spanish: drenar

Further reading

• “drainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rendrai