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Past tense of drain

regular verb

The past tense of drain is drained. The past participle is also drained.

Forms of drain

Base form (V1)drain /dɹeɪn/
Past tense (V2)drained /dɹeɪnd/
Past participle (V3)drained /dɹeɪnd/
Present participledraining /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/
Third person singulardrains /dɹeɪnz/

Drained in a sentence

  • The clogged sink drained slowly.
  • I felt so drained after that three-hour exam that I wanted to sleep for the next week.From the entry drained
  • This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.From the entry egressive
  • The fat that I drained off the meat clogged up the drain.From the entry clog up
  • The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.From the entry color

Meaning of drain

  1. noun A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK).
  2. noun An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
  3. noun A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.

Full definition of drain

Questions about the past tense of drain

What is the past tense of drain?
The past tense of drain is drained.
What is the past participle of drain?
The past participle of drain is drained.
Is drain a regular or irregular verb?
Drain is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drain (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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