drain-like

A form of drainlike — Resembling or characteristic of a drain.

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Meanings

adjectivedrain-like (comparative more drain-like, superlative most drain-like)

comparative more drain-like · superlative most drain-like

  1. alternativeAlternative form of drainlike.

    It is possible that the Waterloo & City line is nicknamed 'The Drain' because of the water pumped away, but there are other theories, the line being drain-like in so many ways.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31

Origin

From drain + -like.

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APA

drain-like. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drain-like

MLA

“drain-like.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drain-like. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drain-like,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drain-like.

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