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undrained

undrained adjective: not drained. Also the simple past and past participle of undrain.

Adjective

undrained (not comparable)

  1. Not drained.
    • Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered.1934 February, G. W. Tripp, “How Nature Harasses the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79

Also used as

undrained is also the simple past and past participle of undrain.

Origin of undrained

From un- + drained.

Questions about undrained

What does undrained mean?
Undrained means not drained.
What part of speech is undrained?
Undrained is an adjective.

Words near undrained in the dictionary

  1. undragonish
  2. undragonlike
  3. undragooned
  4. undrain
  5. undrainable
  6. undrained
  7. undraining
  8. undrains
  9. undramatic
  10. undramatical
  11. undramatically

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